The president of Botswana has called for Mugabe’s removal following the collapse of the power sharing deal.

However Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba said the West was using the cholera outbreak to try to bring down the veteran leader.

"The British and the Americans are dead set on bringing Zimbabwe back to the U.N. Security Council, they are also dead set on ensuring that there is an invasion of Zimbabwe but without themselves carrying it out," state-owned newspaper The Herald quoted Charamba to have said.

Other calls have come from countries like Britain and United States of America (USA) saying Mugabe must go over a growing humanitarian crisis.

The AU through its chairman and Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete backtracked saying the only solution to solving things in Zimbabwe was for dialogue to take its course.

"Only dialogue between the Zimbabwean parties, supported by the AU and other regional actors, can restore peace and stability to that country," said Salva Rweyemamu, spokesman for AU.

Thousands of people have contracted Cholera in the southern African country since August and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Cholera could affect as many as 60,000 in a worst scenario.

The World Health Organisation said cholera could affect as many as 60,000 in a worst-case scenario.

The AU spokesman was quoted by Reuters as saying sending peacekeeping troops or removing Mugabe by force, as proposed by prominent figures including Odinga and Nobel peace laureate and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, were not options.

"We have a serious humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. We have cholera. Do they think that we can eradicate cholera with guns?"

Mugabe and opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai have failed to reach an agreement over a power-sharing deal brokered former South African president Thabo Mbeki, in September.

In the deal the two were supposed to become president and prime minister but that has failed to materialize due to differences on cabinet positions.

Zimbabwe once the mighty country of Africa has become poorer with several of its people migrating to other neighbouring countries like South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi in search of jobs and peaceful life.

The southern African country is said to have on Tuesday ordered prices of goods and services to be cut to levels after prices surged ten fold when the central bank increased bank withdrawal limits.