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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe will boycott next week’s mammoth EU-Africa summit after his wife was denied a visa to enter Europe, a foreign ministry official said.

“We are no longer going to the EU-Africa. We disagreed on the composition of our delegation,” said a source at the ministry, who asked not to be named.

Harare had earlier today urged the African Union to shun the summit for failing to invite all the Africa bloc’s leaders and lift a ban on Zimbabwe’s first lady.

But diplomats in Brussels were unfazed by the call for a boycott.

“We see no risk” of a boycott of the April 2-3 summit, which gathers 90 nations from both continents, including 65 heads of state and government, said a senior official speaking on condition of anonymity.

In Harare, foreign ministry spokesman Joey Bimha said the European Union had failed to invite Sudan and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, which does not have international recognition, while Egypt, which has been suspended from the AU, had been given the nod.

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