Broke Zimbabwe to pay $3bn to white landowners whose farms State seized

White commercial farmers at a meeting in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Zimbabwe has started paying compensation to foreign landowners whose commercial farms were seized during a chaotic land reform programme two decades ago.

The southern African country, which is suffocating under a debt of $21 billion, has committed to pay over $3 billion in compensation to white Zimbabweans who lost their farms during the agrarian reforms.