Zimbabwe will issue 99-year leases to white farmers, according to a government circular, after new President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he would end discrimination along racial lines in agriculture.
Fewer than 400 white farmers are still operating in the southern African nation, after former President Robert Mugabe's government evicted more than 4,000 under an often violent land reform program.
Those who remained were issued with five-year renewable leases by the state compared to 99-year leases for black farmers, leaving their land vulnerable to expropriation by the government.