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Miles Tendi Writes for Guardian on Possible UK Boycott of EU-Africa Summit over Mugabe

ODID Departmental Lecturer Miles Tendi has written a comment piece for the Guardian on a possible UK boycott of the forthcoming EU-Africa summit over the invitation extended to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron is under pressure to  skip the summit in protest at Mugabe's attendance.

However, Tendi argues it would be hypocritical to boycott because of Mugabe’s presence and yet say nothing about the participation of Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta, who is accused by the International Criminal Court of orchestrating post election violence in 2007-8 in which more than 1,000 people were killed.

He also argues that engaging Mugabe is the only way the UK can have constructive influence in Zimbabwe and bring to an end a detrimental diplomatic conflict which many politicians on both sides no longer have the stomach for.

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