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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
James C. Reynolds

White farmers in Zimbabwe plead with Trump to help secure compensation for land seizures

White farmers in Zimbabwe are turning to Donald Trump to help secure compensation for land seized under former president Robert Mugabe more than two decades ago.

American lobbying group Mercury Public Affairs LLC was approached for help by the Zimbabwean Property and Farm Compensation Association (Profca), one of many groups still seeking reparations for farms taken during a sweeping land reform programme in 2000.

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