The refusal last week by the EU not to allow Robert Mugabe's former mistress now wife, Grace to attend the EU-Africa Summit to be held in Brussels, Belgium, next week has attracted a major furore within the ZANU-PF led Zimbabwean government.
EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe Aldo Dell'Ariccia has confirmed that the bloc would not change its stance regarding the First Lady's visa.
Dell'Ariccia said "We have followed all our procedures in relation to granting visas to persons on the sanctions list and the decision is unanimous that her visa application be denied,"
A seething nonagenarian Mugabe last week threatened to marshal other African Union and SADC countries to boycott the summit if his wife was denied a travel visa to the Belgian summit. Read MoreYou received this message because you are subscribed to the "USA-Africa Dialogue Series" moderated by Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin.
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