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Donald Trump has made no secret of his support for white farmers in parts of southern Africa.

In Zimbabwe, many white farmers who were displaced when their land was seized in the 2000s see him as their key to the compensation they've been promised but not yet received.

The group hopes the Trump administration can help fast-track payments that the government in Harare has delayed because of economic constraints.

Shingai Nyoka has the details.

This compensation stems from a very controversial period in Zimbabwe's post-independent history, where in roundabout the year 2000, the then leader Robert Mugabe decided that he was going to take over white-owned farms

to the local farmers.

About a quarter of them have signed on to this.

The majority have rejected this.

And so the group that has signed on to this, we understand now through a filing that came out in Washington, is that they have now engaged a company via South Africa, a company in the U.S.

But I think given the fact that President Trump and his response in South Africa has really created political tensions, I think there was a lot of surprise that the farmers have decided to go this route.

Shingai Nyoka in Harare.

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