ABUJA, Friday (AFP) Zimbabwe agreed at a Commonwealth conference in Nigeria late Thursday to end illegal occupation of farmland by landless blacks, which have plunged the nation into a political and economic crisis and threatened to destabilise the region, and promised action to restore the rule of law. In return, former colonial power Britain agreed to make a “significant financial contribution” to funding a land reform programme, if carried out in a “fair, just and sustainable manner”.
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