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Whispers of Injustice: Socfin’s Decade of Legal Battle Echoing in Communities Across Cameroon

Whispers of Injustice: Socfin’s Decade of Legal Battle Echoing in Communities Across Cameroon
22 August 2023
In 2006, Société Camerounaise de Palmeraies (Socapalm), a subsidiary of plantation giant, Socfin, embarked on an ambitious endeavor – the cultivation of palm plantations within Dibombari’s lush rainforest expanse in Cameroon. Yet, beneath the veneer of progress lies a tapestry of troubling accusations. Allegations of forcible land displacement, pollution of vital water sources, the decimation of delicate ecosystems, and the sacrilegious intrusion into ancestral lands cast a dark shadow over the company’s operations.

Madagascar: New legislation puts local communities at risk of eviction to pave way for investors

Madagascar: New legislation puts local communities at risk of eviction to pave way for investors
16 June 2023
 Civil society organizations in Madagascar are now deeply concerned about the threat the recently passed foreign investment law poses. Currently undergoing a constitutional review, if approved by the High Constitutional Court, it enables foreign investors and companies to lease land for 99 years and renew such agreements which could effectively granting them ownership of the land.

The regional implications of the Eritrean refugee crisis and conflict in the Sudan

The regional implications of the Eritrean refugee crisis and conflict in the Sudan
23 May 2023
Al Jazeera reports on how Eritrean refugees are caught between crisis at home and conflict in the Sudan where there are 126,000 refugees, 11% of the estimated 1.1 million refugees in the country. For more information on Eritrea see also the Land Portal country profile. Conflict and displacement have major implications for land rights and governance.  

Liberia: Dispossessed indigenous Kpelle communities take legal action

Liberia: Dispossessed indigenous Kpelle communities take legal action
20 October 2022

22 Communities dispossessed of their customary land sue Salala Rubber Corp and the Liberian Government.

 

 

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 (SRC) and the Liberian Government.  

Tanzania: TotalEnergies Pipeline Project Questioned By NGOs For Human Rights Violations

Tanzania: TotalEnergies Pipeline Project Questioned By NGOs For Human Rights Violations
05 October 2022

The scenery changes, the story remains the same: in Tanzania, the construction of the pipeline intended to evacuate the oil extracted by TotalEnergies on the shores of Lake Albert, in Uganda, baptized East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop), also accompanies large-scale human rights violations, according to the investigation made public on Wednesday October 5 by Les Amis de la Terre and Survie, the two NGOs behind, with four Ugandan associations, the lawsuit brought against the French major for non-compliance with the law on the duty of vigilance of large companies with regard to their subs

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