Sierra Leone

Phoenix Africa CEO Paddy Docherty interviewed by the FT This is Africa, about frontier investing in Africa.

Mayor of Sierra Leone's Kono City, Sahr Emerson Laminah, says the increasing rate of land-grabbing is a menace and nightmare in the district that has the potential for creating confusion in the country.

As the spring meetings of the World Bank get under way, 180 organizations demand that the World Bank end its Doing Business rankings and its support of the rampant theft of land and resources from some of the world’s poorest people.

Alors que les réunions de printemps de la Banque Mondiale vont s’ouvrir, 180 groupes demandent que la Banque mette fin à ses classements Doing Business et à ses activités soutenant l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles.

Farmers say Socfin Agricultural Company's plantation causes instability, fear, mistrust, poverty, and violence.

One month after the confrontation between land owners in southern Sierra Leone and the SOCFIN Agricultural Company, Green Scenery published a 13-page report on the clamp down on community members who have been advocating for their rights to their land.

African Land Limited sold itself on the back of a promise that its rice farms in Sierra Leone could turn “a tidy profit of 15% a year”.

Luke Marriott’s Gold Tree is presently fighting tooth and nail to take over the Matru Jong 7,008 acre oil palm plantation but industry experts say that Gold Tree does not have the capacity (money).

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

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

Depuis un certain temps déjà, ceux qui travaillent avec les communautés locales dans le district de Pujehun tentent d’avertir le gouvernement et l’entreprise de la dégradation de la situation.

Police in Sierra Leone open fire on villagers gathered to express their grievances over the lease of 6,500 hectares of land to the Socfin Agricultural Company. Only the latest incident in a deteriorating situation.