CSOs urged gov’t to probe Sahn Malen killing
    Sierra Leone Land Rights Defenders say SOCFIN's land acquisition in Malen has resulted in serious conflict with local landowners, who face intimidation and harassment for defending their land rights and challenging the company.
    • Concord Times
    • 01 February 2019
    Reportage de la BBC dans la chefferie de Sahn Malen, Sierra Leone
    Un reportage d'Umaru Fofana dévoile l’étendue des troubles dans la chefferie de Sahn Malen au sud de la Sierra Leone. Les conflits continuent entre des propriétaires fonciers locaux et une société agroalimentaire européenne, SOCFIN.
    • BBC
    • 31 January 2019
    Sierra Leone : deux morts et des milliers de déplacés autour des plantations Socfin
    Ces violences ont fait réagir mercredi un collectif de la société civile luxembourgeoise qui avait averti dès octobre le ministère des Affaires étrangères sur le risque de violences que fait peser le conflit foncier opposant certains villageois à Socfin.
    • Le Quotidien
    • 31 January 2019
    Land rights defenders condemn gross human rights abuses in Sahn Malen
    Proponents of land rights in Sierra Leone note with grave concern the human rights violations against members of the Malen Affected Landowners and users Association who were dispossessed of their land by the agro–based multinational SOCFIN.
    • SiLNoRF et al
    • 31 January 2019
    Des plaignants cambodgiens contre Bolloré privés de visa
    Onze Cambodgiens représentant les 77 membres de l’ethnie bunong ayant attaqué le groupe Bolloré pour le développement de plantations dans leur province ne pourront pas assister à une audience à laquelle ils sont pourtant convoqués, le 12 février.
    • Mediapart
    • 29 January 2019
    Socfin speaks out on disturbances at Sahn Malen
    The company claims that "closure of the Socfin operation in Sierra Leone was debated and was to be carried out within weeks" if nothing was done to stop "mass organized theft" and "criminal gangs"
    • SL Telegraph
    • 28 January 2019
    BBC report from Sahn Malen chiefdom, Sierra Leone
    Details are just emerging of the scale of the recent disturbances in Sahn Malen chiefdom in Southern Sierra Leone. There are disputes between local land owners and a European agribusiness company, SOCFIN. BBC reporter Umaru Fofana went to the area with a group of human rights activists and sent this special report from Pujehun.
    • BBC
    • 27 January 2019
    Cameroun : Des femmes qui refusent de se taire
    Louise Nkakè affirme qu’un jour des soldats l’ont agressée et poussée violemment avec leurs fusils pour ensuite lui confisquer les noix qu’elle cuisait sous prétexte que celles-ci auraient volées dans la plantation de la Socapalm. Elle a insisté sur le fait qu’il s’agissait de ses propres noix.
    • InfoCongo.org
    • 14 January 2019
    How not to conduct large-scale agricultural investments: Lessons from the Malen/Socfin Land dispute in Sierra Leone
    The SOCFIN land acquisition in Malen Chiefdom reads like a collusion between the government and the investor—an alliance of the powerful and wealthy—to strip a community of their most valuable resource.
    • Standard Times
    • 06 December 2018
    Salala Rubber Company closes operations
    Operations at one of Liberia’s major exporters of rubber, the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC), have been paralyzed for days, because the workers are on a go slow action demanding permanent employment.
    • Daily Observer
    • 21 November 2018
    Cameroun : un combat pour la terre
    Combattre. Un verbe plein de sens sur ces rives du fleuve Moungo. Reportage sur le conflit qui perdure entre la SOCAPALM et les paysans riverains.
    • TV5MONDE
    • 13 November 2018
    ING finances controversial palm oil companies in spite of sustainability policy
    As ING launches its sustainable investment campaign, a civil society coalition from Belgium and the Netherlands calls upon ING to clean up their act. ING’s financing of controversial palm oil companies such as SOCFIN is far from sustainable.
    • FIAN et al
    • 23 October 2018

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