US black consciousness leader Louis Farrakhan has backed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's land seizure campaign.
Mr Farrakhan, who leads the Muslim Nation of Islam is due to meet Mr Mugabe today as part of his three-day trip to Zimbabwe.
"Speaking soon after his arrival ... Mr Farrakhan said he was in full support of President Mugabe's policies, especially the land issue as it was aimed at correcting a historical injustice," the state-owned Bulawayo Chroniclereported.
The Zimbabwean government is pressing on with its seizures of white-owned farms despite criticism that the drive is worsening a severe food crisis in the southern African state.
Nearly 3,000 white farmers have been ordered to vacate their farms by August 10th to make way for landless blacks.
Mr Farrakhan, who attended the launch of the new African Union (AU) in the South African resort of Durban last week, has visited Zimbabwe before. But the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corp (ZBC) said on today this trip showed that Mr Mugabe's government was not isolated.
"Western powers, including the United States and former colonial master Britain, are desperately trying to portray the Zimbabwe government as isolated," the ZBC said.
The US and the European Union have imposed travel restrictions on Mr Mugabe and other senior ruling party officials since his controversial re-election in March.
Mr Mugabe attended the AU summit last week, but Zimbabwe was not on the official agenda and their president did not give a speech during the launch of the new pan-African group, which replaced the Organisation for African Unity (OAU).
Mr Farrakhan, who once called Judaism a "gutter religion" and said Adolf Hitler was a "wickedly great man", is banned from Britain in 1986 for expressing racist and anti-Semitic views.