Liberia: GVL violates villagers’ rights then sues them for palm theft
- FrontPageAfrica
- 09 Mar 2023
Five men were arrested and beaten on accusations of stealing palm from GVL plantation, but they deny any wrongdoing.
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Liberia: The farmer defending his land against a palm plantation
- FrontPageAfrica
- 15 Feb 2023
For the past 13 years, 47-year-old farmer Saturday Wilson has been embroiled in a battle with a foreign oil palm plantation company over his farmland. It has placed him behind bars three times, but he still owns the land.
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At a rubber plantation in Liberia, history repeats in a fight over land
- Mongabay
- 17 Jan 2023
Communities say a SOCFIN subsidiary used a $10M loan from the World Bank's IFC to turn the forests where they’d farmed and held sacred rituals into a massive rubber plantation.
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Government, Salala Rubber Plantation Company suffer major setback in court case
- FrontPageAfrica
- 14 Dec 2022
The Court room was parked with people from the communities who tuned out in large number to witness the hearing. After the hearing, the Petitioner were rejoicing and chanting slogans “We want our rights, we want our land”.
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Liberia: 22 communities sue Salala Rubber Corp., Liberian Gov’t
- Daily Observer
- 20 Oct 2022
Residents of 22 indigenous Kpelle communities, dispossessed of their customary land, cultural sites, and livelihoods, have filed a groundbreaking legal action against the Salala Rubber Corporation (Socfin group) and the Liberian government.
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Liberia: Concession company CEO heard in audio recording instructing employee to organize protest against aggrieved residents in Bomi
- FrontPageAfrica
- 12 Oct 2022
The CEO of the Mano Palm Oil Plantation has been caught on tape instructing the head of his company’s private security to stage a protest against against the residents of the communities where his company operates.
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Stakeholders at CSOs-OPWG engagement meeting
- New Republic
- 09 May 2022
Participants of Liberia's Civil Society Organizations Oil Palm Working Group, through the Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), have agreed on several strategies to work within making the sector better.
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ING withdraws from complaint against the bank’s involvement in the palm oil sector
- Milieudefensie
- 08 Apr 2022
The complaint to the OECD lodged by Friends of the Earth was supposed to deal with adverse impacts of three of the bank’s palm oil clients, ranging from human rights and labour rights violations to deforestation
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Liberia: Villagers struggle to honor the dead after losing graveyards to investors
- Daily Observer
- 21 Mar 2022
Many rural communities affected by agricultural concessions in Liberia have seen their ancestral gravesites leveled in some of the worst land-grabs in human history.
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Un nouveau rapport révèle la menace que font poser les grandes plantations agricoles sur l'accès à l'eau en Afrique
- Oakland Institute
- 15 Mar 2022
Une revue de 15 projets dans 11 pays tire la sonnette d'alarme sur l'accaparement de l'eau et appelle à une action urgente pour protéger le droit à l'eau en Afrique.
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Drying out African lands: Expansion of large-scale agriculture threatens access to water in Africa
- Oakland Institute
- 15 Mar 2022
A review of 15 large-scale agriculture projects across 11 African countries, exposes how these projects lead to the loss of streams and swamps and pollute water sources.
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In West and Central Africa, palm oil investors buckle under community pressure
- Mongabay
- 11 Mar 2022
Researchers say that cross-border campaigning and resistance by community land rights organizations is a major reason why the industry has faltered in Africa.
