Zimbabwe's white farmers: Will Trump help or hinder their compensation battle?

Zimbabwe's white farmers: Will Trump help or hinder their compensation battle?

They have engaged a lobbying firm with close ties to the US president to argue their case.

Will Trump help or hinder Zimbabwe’s white farmers in their compensation battle?

AFP via Getty Images Zimbabwe agreed a compensation deal to pay $3.5bn for infrastructure improvements to land that was seized Desperate and ageing white farmers whose land was seized during Robert Mugabe’s rule more than two decades ago hope Donald Trump may be able to help them get billions of dollars in unpaid compensation owed to them by Zimbabwe’s government. After all, some of them argue, the US president intervened last year to fight f…