Des riveraines de la Socapalm, une société de palmier à huile au Cameroun, filiale du groupe SOCFIN, revendiquent un espace vital. Elles ont investi une plantation.
- Magazine Pajes Jaunes Cameroun
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23 January 2025
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
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.
- FrontPageAfrica
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01 September 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
Broadcast with Joseph Rahall, Shiaka Sama and Frédéric Mousseau that looks at the struggle over land around Socfin's 18,500 ha oil palm concession in Sierra Leone.
- A Growing Culture
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24 October 2020
On 20 May 2020 villagers from Ijaw-Gbene in Okomu Kingdom had their homes burnt down by agents of the Nigerian subsidiary of the Luxembourg-based SOCFIN plantations company.
- Galaxy Television
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16 June 2020
Le 20 mai 2020, un autre village du royaume d'Okomu, Ijaw-Gbene, a été complètement incendié par la direction d'OOPC, filiale nigériane de la société de plantations SOCFIN.
Après avoir vendu l'électricité aux populations riveraines pendant plusieurs années, le directeur de la plantation appartenant au groupe Socfin a l'intention de vendre aussi de l'eau, selon un témoignage
- Cameroun Web
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11 February 2020
A coalition of civil society organisations has alleged that SOCFIN's Nigerian subsidiary, Okomu Oil Palm, is engaged in land grabbing, deforestation and killing of endangered elephant calf within its plantation
- Guardian
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10 December 2019
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
Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, majority-owned by the Luxembourg-based Socfin group, has commissioned an 11,400 hectare oil palm plantation covering over 10 communities in Nigeria's Edo State.
The handful of companies that control industrial palm oil production in West and Central Africa have been linked to numerous social and environmental impacts, violating their buyers’ NDPE commitments.
Under the guise of ‘conflict mediation’ and community empowerment, the work of certain corporate NGOs results in communities continuing without access to and control over their lands, and in strengthening destructive production models.
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.
- Political Ecology Network
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11 August 2021
A new report from the Oakland Institute examines a controversial land investment deal in Sierra Leone. Pambazuka News caught up with its Policy Director to find out why the report has attracted so much attention.
Reportage de Mongabay sur le conflit autour de la Socaplam au Cameroun
Sans préjuger du verdict final, le jugement devant être mis en délibéré prochainement, le 26 janvier 2018 rentrera dans les annales de la lutte des peuples opprimés par les compagnies impérialistes comme celui où le groupe Bolloré
- Cameroon Voice
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30 January 2018
A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country
- Equal Times
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28 September 2016
Vincent Bolloré, son groupe et ses divers porte-parole restent extrêmement chatouilleux au sujet des plantations africaines et asiatiques. Au point de multiplier les procès en diffamation sur le sujet, et de se voir accusés de mener des poursuites-bâillons destinées à faire taire leurs adversaires parlant un peu trop fort sur ce thème.
- Mediapart
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18 November 2022
French lawyer Fiodor Rilov's account the lawsuit brought by Bunong communities from eastern Cambodia against Bolloré group.
Récit de l'avocat français Fiodor Rilov sur le procès intenté par les communautés Bunong, de l'est du Cambodge, contre le groupe Bolloré
Farmers and charities are demanding an independent investigation into the claims made by landowners who say their complaints and grievances were ignored.
M. Bolloré, classé 9e fortune de France, attaque pour "diffamation publique envers un particulier" un article de synthèse publié par Bastamag consacré à la question de l’accaparement des terres
- Reporterre
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13 February 2016
A day before the start of yet another trial brought on the Bolloré Group against French journalists, organisations denounce the imprisonment of 6 local community leaders affected by the investments of company linked to Bolloré
- GRAIN et al.
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10 February 2016
L’exploitation des terres par la Socapalm empêche 145 Camerounais d’accéder à des terrains et lieux de sépulture et pollue leur eau. Après des années de procédure, ils ont obtenu 142 000 euros d’une holding qu’ils accusent d’être contrôlée par le groupe Bolloré.
Eighty indigenous farmers are suing the Bolloré group and its subsidiaries for having grabbed their ancestral lands
- Mediapart
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01 October 2019
Plusieurs organisations accusent les magnats européens Vincent Bolloré et Hubert Fabri de recourir à l'intimidation pour museler l'opposition locale à l'accaparement des terres africaines.
Bienvenue aux « Terres de Socapalm » : six palmeraies sont réparties sur ce territoire de 58 000 hectares au sud-ouest du Cameroun – ce qui représente un tiers de la superficie de la province d’Utrecht.
- De Volkskrant
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25 May 2021
A search through the World Bank's archives shines a light on why Africa's post-colonial governments failed to dismantle the plantation model and return lands to their people.
- WRM/GRAIN
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15 November 2020
While palm oil companies present themselves as benevolent donors during the pandemic, communities living in and around these plantations tell another story.