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Zimbabwe’s Evicted White Farmers Offered $3.5 Billion Payout

  • Government began driving the farmers off their land in 2000
  • Commercial farms accounted for much of the nation’s exports

     

Photographer: Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg
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Zimbabwe’s white commercial farmers, who were violently evicted from their land in a series of invasions that began two decades ago, said they have been offered $3.5 billion to settle their dispute with the government.