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Article: Zimbabwe farmers flee, start over.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Byline: Nicole Itano Special to the Christian Science Monitor
CHIMOIO, MOZAMBIQUE -- Mozambique has little of the natural mineral wealth of its neighbors and, after years of war, few of the luxuries of modern life. But to white Zimbabwe farmers fleeing turmoil in their homeland, the rich, red soil of the former Portuguese colony's western provinces looks like gold.
Many of the dozen or so families who have come to hew new lives from the overgrown ruins of Mozambique's colonial-era plantations, lost their farms in neighboring Zimbabwe in the last two years of political violence.
One man watched as his timber farm was burned by squatters. ...