Zimbabwe has offered more than 1,000 white farmers compensation for property seized during controversial land reforms launched by Robert Mugabe’s government.
Ngoni Masoka, the secretary of lands, used a newspaper advertisement to urge more than 1,000 dispossessed farmers to contact the ministry.
At least 500 white farmers still remain in Zimbabwe while many others have emigrated to [...]

[Read more →]

Turkey has suspended military relations with France in a dispute over whether the mass killings of Armenians in the last century amounted to genocide.
General Ilker Basbug, the land forces commander, was quoted on Wednesday by state-owned Anatolia news agency as saying in Ankara: “Relations with France in the military field have been suspended.”
On possible cancellation [...]

[Read more →]