Liberia

La silence du groupe SOCFIN a mené à une nouvelle série de mobilisations dans les différents pays dès le mois d’Avril 2015, qui se sont achevées par des actions lors des assemblées générales du groupe Socfin puis Bolloré.

“We want our land back,” said Bindu Kannea, a mother and a farmer who lives in Grand Cape Mount County. In Liberia community resistance to palm oil expansion is about protecting their last remaining pieces of land.

Golden Veroleum has denied using the Ebola crisis to take advantage of Liberian communities but local officials and en disagree.

Massive land grabs in Liberia by a major oil palm company at the peak of the Ebola outbreak have had a hand in the harassment and violence faced by Liberians speaking out against palm oil expansion, a new report released Thursday claims.

L'ONG Global Witness a accusé aujourd'hui l'entreprise d'huile de palme Golden Veroleum de profiter de l'épidémie Ebola au Libéria pour doubler la taille de sa plantation.

Global Witness exposé reveals violence, threats, and false promises driving rapid palm oil expansion in Liberia. Urgent reforms needed to protect citizens and regulate plantation companies.

Communities in Liberia are being pressured to sign away their land to make way for palm oil plantations, according to a campaign group.

The Liberian government’s refusal to recognize and respect rural people’s customary land rights is marginalizing and destabilizing local communities, leading to full-scale conflict.

Since April, communities and activists in Cameroon, Cambodia, Liberia and the Ivory Coast have also staged direct protest actions against subsidiaries of Socfin, one of the world's largest independent plantation owners with 150,000 hectares of rubber and oil palm in several African and Southeast Asian countries.

Activists called Thursday for French conglomerate Bollore to return land, or compensate farmers, over disputed concessions for plantations in Cambodia and three African countries.

On Thursday the 4th of June, people from Cameroon, the Ivory Coast and activists from the Conféderation Paysanne, will disrupt the AGM of the Bolloré group in Puteaux, outside Paris.

Jeudi 4 juin, des Camerounais, des Ivoiriens et des militants de la Confédération Paysanne vont perturber l’AGe du groupe Bolloré à Puteaux.