ZIMBABWE has accused its former colonial master Britain of failing to play its part in implementing an agreement reached last month in a bid to end the land crisis. “There is room for the British to come back into Zimbabwe’s land reform programme. But if they squander this chance then it will take them time to come back again,” an unnamed government official told the state-run Sunday Mail. In the pact reached in Abuja, Nigeria, on September 6, Britain offered to help compensate white farmers for land seized by the government, but conditioned the aid on an end to violence on the farms and the restoration of the rule of law in the southern African country. The newspaper quoted a diplomat as saying: “It now seems as if Zimbabwe is the only one in the deal that is fighting hard to make sure the agreement is a success. That is not a healthy situation if the agreement is to succeed.” – AFP
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