Mugabe’s Seized Farms Boost Profits at British American Tobacco

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Mugabe’s Seized Farms Boost Profits at British American Tobacco http://www.businessweek.com December 01, 2011, 1:36 PM EST By Brian Latham Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — Robert Mugabe devastated Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry in 2000 by driving white farmers off their land and giving it to his allies. Now British American Tobacco Plc is profiting from tobacco grown on those properties. BAT, …

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Rhinos at risk get US crime-fighting boost

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Rhinos at risk get US crime-fighting boost AFP – 1 hr 13 mins ago A US-based animal protection group said Wednesday it is collecting money for a new initiative to equip rangers in South Africa and Zimbabwe with crime scene kits to better hunt rhinoceros poachers. The program was announced just weeks after rhino poaching in South …

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Climate change hits Africa’s poorest farmers

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Climate change hits Africa’s poorest farmers By GILLIAN GOTORA, Associated Press – 2 hours ago HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — As she surveys her small, bare plot in Zimbabwe’s capital, farmer Janet Vambe knows something serious is happening, even if she has never heard of climate change. “Long ago, I could set my calendar with the date the …

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Land reform in need of review— Ray

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Land reform in need of review— Ray http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Thursday, 24 November 2011 17:59 Gamma Mudarikiri UNITED States ambassador to Zimbabwe Charles Ray on Wednesday said there was need to review the country’s land reform programme embarked on in 2000 because the majority of the population remained landless and destitute. Ray was speaking in Bindura where he commissioned the …

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