{UAH} Zimbabwe agrees to pay $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers | Article [AMP] | Reuters

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Zimbabwe agrees to pay $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers

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FILE PHOTO: Workers harvest tobacco at a farm outside Harare, Zimbabwe, February 20, 2019.

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FILE PHOTO: Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa speaks during his meeting with Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko (not pictured) in Minsk, Belarus January 17, 2019. Natalia Fedosenko/Pool via

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(Reuters) - Zimbabwe agreed on Wednesday to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.

But the southern African nation does not have the money and will issue long term bonds and jointly approach international donors with the farmers to raise funding, according to the compensation agreement.

Two decades ago Mugabe's government carried out at times violent evictions of 4,500 white farmers and redistributed the land to around 300,000 Black families, arguing it was redressing colonial land imbalances.

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