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Congo Basin: The coming storm
- Earthsight
- 29 April 2018
How secrecy and collusion in industrial agriculture spell disaster for the Congo Basin’s rainforests.
Vincent Bolloré mis en examen
- C à vous
- 26 April 2018
Tristan Waleckx et Jean-Baptiste Rivoire parlent des menaces qui pèsent sur les médias qui exposent les activités du Groupe Bolloré en Afrique
French tycoon Bollore's African assets
- ADP
- 26 April 2018
Billionaire French industrialist Vincent Bollore, who is a major shareholder in the plantation company SOCFIN, is being questioned in Paris over allegations that his conglomerate used corrupt connections in Africa to win port contracts.
Harvard endowment linked to land grab in Brazil
- The Takeaway
- 26 April 2018
The Harvard Management Company, which handles Harvard University's $37 billion endowment, has recently been linked to an agribusiness that may have been involved in deforestation and fraudulent land titles.
Liberians plan sit-in to pressure Weah to protect land rights
- Reuters
- 26 April 2018
Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.
Liberians plan sit-in to pressure Weah to protect land rights
- Reuters
- 26 April 2018
Chiefs across Liberia are petitioning lawmakers while activists prepare for a sit-in protest in the nation’s capital as they push to secure ancestral land rights.
Le magnat belge du caoutchouc jugé pour corruption
- L'Echo
- 26 April 2018
Alors que Vincent Bolloré était toujours en garde à vue mercredi, le procès de son homme-lige Hubert Fabri et de la "galaxie Socfin" débute demain.
Menace de crise alimentaire en Afrique : Dakar capitale du mouvement syndical international en décembre 2018
- Dakar Actu
- 25 April 2018
Alioune Ndiaye alerte sur la famine que connaissent certaines populations du Nord du Sénégal dûe au « phénomène de l’accaparement des terres opéré par les multinationales étrangères qui appauvrissent les cultivateurs ».
Spécialiste de l'attaque, Vincent Bolloré désormais sur la défensive
- AFP
- 25 April 2018
Connu pour ses stratégies offensives voire ses coups de force, l'industriel breton Vincent Bolloré se retrouve désormais en position défensive sur fond de soupçons de corruption en Afrique, après avoir aussi vu ses méthodes remises en question ailleurs.
Why we earmarked 200,000 ha for oil palm plantation – Obaseki
- Vanguard
- 25 April 2018
“The goal for the palm oil industry is to have not less than 200,000 hectares of organised oil palm plantation by the end of my administration," Edo State Governor Mr. Godwin Obaseki said.
Mass resignations at Chinese owner of Australia's largest dairy farm cast doubt on investment
- Guardian
- 25 April 2018
A mass board resignation at the Chinese firm that bought Australia’s largest dairy farm has fuelled concerns it may not fulfil its promises of local investment and environmental protection.
Farmers count losses as birds destroy acres of rice farm
- The Standard
- 25 April 2018
The birds are said to have migrated from Dominion Farms in the neighbouring Siaya County after the proprietor shifted from rice to sugarcane farming.