Mugabe: I will attend summit
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Lisbon - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe will attend the European Union-Africa summit on December 08-09 in Lisbon, Lusa news agency has reported.

"Yes, I'm going," Mugabe said when questioned by Lusa.

Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe since its 1980 independence from Britain and was accused by the West of stifling democracy and leading his southern African nation to economic ruin, had said he meant to attend the Lisbon summit, although he faced an EU travel ban.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had vowed that neither he nor any senior cabinet member would attend if Mugabe turned up.

No EU-Africa summit had been held since the first and only one in Cairo seven years ago, as several European countries rejected inviting Mugabe, accused of human rights violations.

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