Mugabe land seizure blow

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Windhoek - A regional African tribunal on Thursday ordered Zimbabwe not to proceed with the seizure of a farmer's land, dealing a blow to President Robert Mugabe and threatening to draw his neighbours into a heated land redistribution debate.

A three-person Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal unanimously ruled in favour of Zimbabwean farmer Mike Campbell, who had asked the court in the Namibian capital Windhoek to stop Zimbabwe's seizure of his family's farm.

Mugabe's government, often accused of human rights abuses, stifling political dissent and running Zimbabwe's economy into the ground, has seized thousands of white-owned farms and redistributed the land to blacks since 2000.

- Reuters