SOCFIN

The company claims that "closure of the Socfin operation in Sierra Leone was debated and was to be carried out within weeks" if nothing was done to stop "mass organized theft" and "criminal gangs"

Details are just emerging of the scale of the recent disturbances in Sahn Malen chiefdom in Southern Sierra Leone. There are disputes between local land owners and a European agribusiness company, SOCFIN. BBC reporter Umaru Fofana went to the area with a group of human rights activists and sent this special report from Pujehun.

Au moins deux villageois ont été tués et nombre d’autres sont cachés ou ont été détenus par la police à Malen, en Sierra Leone, suite à l’intervention brutale de la police et de l’armée visant à supprimer les protestations surgies localement contre les opérations de la plantation de palmiers à huile de SOCFIN.

At least two villagers killed and dozens of others are in hiding or being held by police in Malen, Sierra Leone following a brutal intervention by police and military to suppress local protests against SOCFIN's oil palm plantation operations.

Entretien avec Eloïse Maulet de l'ONG ReAct sur les conflits fonciers autour des plantations du groupe SOCFIN, dans lequel le groupe Bolloré est actionnaire

Louise Nkakè affirme qu’un jour des soldats l’ont agressée et poussée violemment avec leurs fusils pour ensuite lui confisquer les noix qu’elle cuisait sous prétexte que celles-ci auraient volées dans la plantation de la Socapalm. Elle a insisté sur le fait qu’il s’agissait de ses propres noix.

The SOCFIN land acquisition in Malen Chiefdom reads like a collusion between the government and the investor—an alliance of the powerful and wealthy—to strip a community of their most valuable resource.

Operations at one of Liberia’s major exporters of rubber, the Salala Rubber Corporation (SRC), have been paralyzed for days, because the workers are on a go slow action demanding permanent employment.

The Wee Statutory District Representative, Vicent Willie, told reporters that he and his partners from India and China have concluded talks to engage into large scale farming.

Combattre. Un verbe plein de sens sur ces rives du fleuve Moungo. Reportage sur le conflit qui perdure entre la SOCAPALM et les paysans riverains.

OKOMU Oil Palm Company Plc has warned Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria to desist from spreading spurious and libellous allegations that the company has been parading an RSPO certificate which it does not possess

« Ce qui est sûr, c’est que pour nous, l’autorégulation ne fonctionne pas. »