Mugabe rethink

The Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, said his government would consult farmers and foreign donors on its plans to seize mainly white-owned commercial farms to resettle peasants. In a hint that he may be softening his hardline drive to grab farmland, he told an economic consultative forum the government would go for derelict and under-used land, "oversized" farms and land belonging to absentee landlords.

- Reuters, Harare