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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
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Shola Lawal

Is Zimbabwe wooing Donald Trump by paying white farmers and ending tariffs?

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivers a speech during his inauguration ceremony at the National Sports Stadium in the capital Harare, on Monday, September 4, 2023 [Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP]

Long-frozen relations between the United States and Zimbabwe may be thawing after the Southern African nation slashed all taxes on US goods flowing into the country and announced it has begun to pay compensation to white farmers who lost land during controversial, sometimes violent land expropriation reforms that were instituted 25 years ago

The moves come amid a wave of sweeping tariffs imposed on countries around the world by US President Donald Trump, and as other countries scramble to renegotiate with Washington.

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