Sierra Leone

Broadcast with Joseph Rahall, Shiaka Sama and Frédéric Mousseau that looks at the struggle over land around Socfin's 18,500 ha oil palm concession in Sierra Leone.

SOCFIN's operations in Sierra Leone is one of 5 cases documented by Friend of the Earth Europe to highlight the lack of accountability of European multinationals

While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the pandemic, communities living in and around these plantations tell another story.

The massive Socfin oil palm plantation operation is one of post-war Sierra Leone’s biggest investments and one of its most controversial.

Socfin, a Belgian holding company that operates palm oil and rubber plantations through dozens of subsidiaries across Africa and Southeast Asia, has been rebuked for alleged human rights violations at its plantations.

Nosotros, los abajo firmantes, les escribimos en relación con las condiciones de los trabajadores en las plantaciones de Socfin, así como las condiciones de las comunidades vecinas, en particular durante la actual pandemia de Covid-19.

Letter from African community organisations to SOCFIN regarding the unsafe conditions for plantation workers and neighbouring communities during the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture has blocked a large-scale poultry farm project covering 10,000 acres promoted by two Israeli companies citing “critical commercial risks” that need to be resolved.

FIAN Belgium salue la finalisation du Rapport d’investigation du Comité technique, qui conclut la phase d’investigation du processus de résolution du conflit foncier dans la chefferie de Malen en Sierra Leone, impliquant la multinationale d’huile de palme SOCFIN.

Le mandat du comité était d’enquêter et d’émettre des recommandations qui résoudraient le conflit entre les propriétaires fonciers, le conseil de la chefferie et la SOCFIN Agricultural Company au Sierra Léone

The women of Malen, who are struggling to get their lands back from SOCFIN Agricultural Company, are calling on the government to intervene as soon as possible so that they can have access to their lands since that is all that they know.

The project specifically targets families that have been displaced by the activities of the European agribusiness firm, Socfin Agricultural Company.