President Endorses Deal to End Land Grabs
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said he approves of a Commonwealth-backed deal to end his country’s farm seizure crisis.
Under an agreement signed last week in Abuja, Nigeria, Zimbabwe pledged an immediate end to farm invasions in return for British funding for orderly land reform.
Mugabe told a news conference that he accepted the accord but that it still needed the endorsement of his Cabinet and his party’s senior policy-making body.
Meanwhile, farmer representatives said there had been a massive upsurge in land invasions in the north since the accord was announced Thursday.
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