Liberia

Demand for the lucrative oil is increasing and land in the main exporting countries of Malaysia and Indonesia is quickly running out, so companies are now looking to the hot, humid countries along the Equator in West Africa.

Le dernier bulletin d'information de la Commission de l'UEMOA et du Hub Rural sur les actualités foncières ouest-africaines vient de paraître

Muchas comunidades se están rebelando ante esta situación, con gobiernos corruptos títeres de las transnacionales.

Investigation conducted revealed that Equatorial Palm Oil's operation in Bassa is currently experiencing setback owing to the action by the Legislative Caucus via the citizens. As a result, the company is contemplating on a possible pull out.

Sifca Group, which owns Africa’s biggest palm-oil refinery located in Ivory Coast, said it plans to spend $417 million in the next five years on plantations and factories in Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia.

European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia.

La multinationale française Bolloré s’est accordé jusqu’au 30 juin pour donner suite aux revendications des paysans riverains de ses plantations, qui manifestent dans plusieurs pays africains contre l’expansion des activités du groupe sur leurs terres.

Sackie Qwemie travaille pour Equatorial Palm Oil (EPO), l’entreprise qui a pris sa terre dans le nord-ouest du Libéria.

Dans trois pays d’Afrique, les riverains des plantations contrôlées par le groupe Bolloré ont organisé des manifestations simultanées le jour de l’AG des actionnaires. A Paris, Vincent Bolloré a reçu en mains propres la lettre de revendications portée par des ressortissants des pays concernés.

Farmers in four African countries, whose land, lives and livelihoods have been disrupted by the expansion of plantations under the control of the Bolloré group, are organising coordinated actions at the group's general shareholders’ meeting.

More and more African governments give away land to companies as they wish, even if occupied by local smallholders. New report from Brot für die Welt looks at legal aspects in the palm oil sector .

Bah and his kinsmen were not consulted in the leasing of their land to EPO. He says the company used bulldozers to clear the land, including ancestral land and sacred sites, without any remorse or respect for their local culture.