Zimbabwe sets aside $50m to compensate white farmers whose lands were seized

Zimbabwe's government has set aside $53m to compensate former white farm owners removed from their land under a controversial and often violent programme instituted under former President Robert Mugabe. Public services brought to a halt in Tunisia as more than half a million workers go on strike. And in a landmark case in South Africa, a poor rural community wins the right to say no to mining on their land.

Photo: Peasants in front of a white-owned farm they had invaded, Zimbabwe, 17 November, 1998, AFP.