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Nigeria looks to revive ailing palm oil sector
- AFP
- 04 October 2021
Government of Nigeria is pumping new money into the palm oil sector but the funds go to companies like the European giant Socfin, not small Nigerian farmers
Women, land, plantations and oppression in Sierra Leone
- WRM
- 22 September 2021
Aminata Massaquoi of the Informal Alliance Against Industrial Oil Palm Plantations in Africa speaks about the struggles of women in Sierra Leone opposed to the oil palm plantations of Socfin and other companies.
La colère des populations riveraines de Dizangue contre la certification RSPO de l'agro-industriel SAFACAM
- Ruralinfo.net
- 21 September 2021
« Il est difficile de comprendre comment SAFACAM a pu obtenir un certificat RSPO sans changer totalement ses pratiques. Elle est loin d’être une entreprise responsable », s'exprime Monsieur ESSONGA Michel
Déforestation intensive pour l'huile de palme certifiée Bio Suisse de Sâo Tomé
- Uniterre
- 09 September 2021
Pour l'organisation paysanne Uniterre, il est à craindre que Bio Suisse ne re-certifie la plantation d’Agripalma, du groupe Socfin, dès qu’elle estimera que la vague de critique sera passée
“Find, fix and finish him”
- The Point
- 07 September 2021
Nigerian grassroots defender Ajele Sunday wanted dead for helping communities fight for their land against SOCFIN's subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm Plantation in Edo State.
Senate Labour committee chair suspects malice in death of LAC employee who was minced by rubber processing machine
- FrontPageAfrica
- 01 September 2021
The Chairman of the Senate’s Labour Committee says that preliminary investigation into the incident that led to the death of an employee at SOCFIN's Liberia Agriculture Company has semblance of malice and negligence.
Au Liberia, le gouvernement ferme l’usine de caoutchouc LAC
- Commodafrica
- 30 August 2021
Suite à un accident travail survenu à l’usine de caoutchouc de la Liberian Agricultural Company, du groupe SOCFIN, qui a entrainé la mort d’un employé, le gouvernement a ordonné que l’usine reste fermée jusqu'à ce que toutes les mesures de sécurité mises en place soient évaluées par des techniciens indépendants.
Sierra Leone: MALOA is disappointed by UNDP/Fambul Tok meeting on 18th August 2021
- MALOA
- 19 August 2021
So-called MALOA representatives at the UNDP-sponsored meeting were handpicked from the membership of Hopanda, a group sponsored by SOCFIN Agriculture Company to oppose MALOA and promote the interests of the company.
Certification SOGB : Déclaration des chefs de villages et du bureau exécutife de l'AVD
- 17 August 2021
Les chefs de village et le bureau exécutif de l'AVD marquent leur opposition à la certification RSPO de la SOGB, filiale ivoirienne du groupe SOCFIN, demandent son annulation et exigent une reprise du processus qui respecte les normes
Courting justice: when legal challenges to corporate land grabs go wrong
- Political Ecology Network
- 11 August 2021
In July 2021, a French court ruled against a group of Indigenous Bunong farmers from Mondulkiri in Northeastern Cambodia. In light of recent discussions on the potential and constraints of legal activism, we aim here to highlight entrenched structural factors that can hinder communities in legal challenges to corporate land grabs.
Landowners protest over delayed report in southern Sierra Leone
- Politico
- 21 July 2021
Executive members of an organisation representing landowners engaged in a long drawn out dispute with Socfin Agriculture Company in Malen Chiefdom in the Pujehun district have appealed to President Julius Maada to intervene.
Bunong, Bollore land dispute overruled by French tribunal
- Phnom Penh Post
- 15 July 2021
A joint statement issued by 97 Bunong indigenous families in Mondulkiri province expressed disappointment in the Tribunal of Nanterre in France which overruled their complaints concerning 2,386ha of disputed land with French company Bollore. The families from Pech Chreada district’s Bou Sra commune said they would grant lawyers the right to file an appeal in France.