Mugabe returned home last night

He was received at the Harare International Airport by his two deputies Vice Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko, Cabinet Ministers, services chiefs and senior Government officials

The TICAD VI Summit was co-organised by the Government of Japan, the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on Africa, the United Nations Development Programme, the African Union and the World Bank focused on other key areas such promotion of structural economic transformation through diversification and industrialisation, promotion of resilient health system for quality life and promoting social stability for shared prosperity.

Mugabe met his Kenyan counterpart President Uhuru Kenyatta on the sidelines of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development that ended in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday where they discussed various ways of enhancing economic ties between the two countries.

The major highlight of the meeting was the appreciation of Japan's new development policy for Africa that is in line with Zimbabwe's economic blueprint the Zim-Asset.

Briefing journalists after the meeting that was held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said Japan was of the view that value addition and beneficiation were critical to Africa's development.