Sierra Leone

AAF ESG Annual Report 2016
- Phatisa
- 31 Mar 2017
African Agriculture Fund Environmental, Social and Governance Annual Report 2016
Farmers seek independent inquiry into controversial Sierra Leone palm oil deal
- Reuters
- 29 Mar 2017
Farmers and charities are demanding an independent investigation into the claims made by landowners who say their complaints and grievances were ignored.
Apropiación de tierras: el grupo Bolloré / SOCFIN rechaza el diálogo con las comunidades
- UMOYA
- 25 Mar 2017
Una delegación de Sierra Leona, en representación de las comunidades locales afectadas por la apropiación de tierras del grupo Bolloré / SOCFIN, está actualmente viajando por Europa.
Accaparement des terres : le groupe Bolloré/SOCFIN refuse le dialogue avec les communautés
- FIAN
- 21 Mar 2017
Une délégation de Sierra Leone, représentant les communautés locales affectées par les accaparements de terres par le groupe Bolloré/SOCFIN est actuellement en tournée en Europe.
Obliterating legal rights in large scale land deals in Sierra Leone
- Awoko
- 13 February 2017
The present crop of large-scale land lease agreements with MNCS in Sierra Leone are fraught with serious, challengeable, and voidable provisions. If they are not renegotiated, then going to court for specific impact litigation will be the only way out.
Sierra Léone : des activistes dénoncent les accaparements de terres agricoles par la Socfin
- Agence Ecofin
- 03 October 2016
« Nous nous opposons à ce que des personnes viennent s’approprier toutes nos ressources sans notre consentement », s’indigne Shiaka Sama, le porte-parole de l’association MALOA.
Palm oil profits trump self-sufficiency in Sierra Leone
- Deutsche Welle
- 28 September 2016
Socfin's most recent project is in Sierra Leone. The country possesses massive amounts of land where oil palm production could thrive and a government that is willing to hand over this land to investors for not that much money.
Shrinking civil society space in Sierra Leone: Silencing freedom of expression
- HRDN-SL
- 07 September 2016
Civil Society members expressing concern over human rights abuses by corporate entities are increasingly being accused of being agents of the political opposition or “anti-development”.
The weakest should not bear the risk
- Bread for the World
- 04 September 2016
Holding the Development Finance Institutions responsible when private sector projects fail. The case of Addax Bioethanol in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone: Fighting over palm fruits lands sick man in hospital - a case of human rights abuse in Malen Chiefdom
- Green Scenery
- 19 August 2016
Eight private security guards of Sharp Security attached to Socfin Agricultural Company in Malen Chiefdom attacked community members of Walleh village, claiming they were in possession of palm fruits belonging to the company.
Final monitoring report on the operations and the scale down of Addax Bioenergy (2016)
- SiLNoRF & BfA
- 30 June 2016
This report describes the Addax Bioenergy Project in Makeni, Sierra Leone. It covers the period of July 2014 to June 2015 when Addax was still operational as well as the period of July 2015 to June 2016 when Addax scaled down its operations.
CSOs want to reanimate the dialogue on Socfin in Malen Chiefdom: over 120,000 signatures to be handed over to Government
- SFDI et al
- 16 June 2016
Civil Society Organisations in Sierra Leone wish to let the public understand that a solution to the persistent conflict in Malen Chiefdom is needed.