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In 2019, 22 communities in Liberia filed a complaint with the World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, accusing the International Finance Corporation of fueling abuse and environmental destruction through a loan to the Salala Rubber Corporation to expand its rubber plantations—with devastating consequences.

The World Bank Group’s Compliance Advisor Ombudsman found that the IFC failed to follow its own safeguards, enabling widespread harm to land rights, community health, cultural heritage and women by the Salala Rubber Corporation.

A long-standing land dispute has recently escalated between a subsidiary of the European holding company Socfin and the Indigenous Apouh à Ngog (Apouh) community in Cameroon’s Littoral region.

Après une longue bataille judiciaire, les ONG et militant·es poursuivi·es diffamation ont été totalement acquittées. Le jugement rendu par la justice luxembourgeoise est très net : les accusations étaient infondées.

Bloomberg's Big Take podcast looks at an investigation into allegations of sexual coercion at plantations run by Socfin, a rubber company supplying top tiremakers.

Hubert Fabri and Vincent Bolloré own plantations accused of land appropriation and labor abuses. Their company says it has taken steps to improve matters, but a trip to West Africa shows sexual coercion claims remain widespread.

On March 25, 2025, the people living in Apouh A Ngog village in the Litoral Region of Cameroon witnessed a brutal and traumatising act of intimidation : heavily armed government forces, including heavily armed soldiers and gendarmes arriving to supervise the replanting of oil palms by staff of SOCAPALM, part of the multinational corporation Socfin Bolloré.

Le 25 mars 2025, les habitants du village Apouh À Ngog, dans la région du Littoral au Cameroun, ont été témoin d'un acte brutal et traumatisant: des forces gouvernementales composées de militaires, de gendarmes lourdement armées ont investi le village pour encadrer le replanting du palmier à huile par le personnel de la SOCAPALM, partie de la multinational Socfin Bolloré.

Optimism is reverberating among workers as issues of decrepit housing and a plethora of other problems left behind by Socfinaf - a Luxembourg multinational, partly held by France's Bolloré group, that owned SRC until it divested in August 2024 - are now being addressed.

Une série de rapports, publiés le 14 février 2025 par Earthworm Foundation, révèlent de nouvelles allégations de harcèlement sexuel et de spoliation des terres entre autres dans les plantations de la Société camerounaise des palmeraies (Socapalm), filiale de Socfin.

Bolloré détient une partie du groupe agroindustriel Socfin, qui produit de l'huile de palme et du caoutchouc en Afrique et en Asie. Si le groupe est connu pour s'accaparer les terres, les violences sexuelles et sexistes qui en découlent le sont beaucoup moins. Enquête de Lola Keraron pour la Revue Silence au Cameroun.

Since 2021, Socapalm – majority-owned by Socfinaf, a Luxembourg holding itself part owned by the Bolloré Group – has been replanting palms to rejuvenate its plantation at Edéa, in Cameroon, creating tremendous difficulty for neighbouring villagers.