Protest against palm oil company, Socfin in Sierra LeonePhoto: rainforest-rescue.org
Farmers in Africa and Asia on Wednesday announced in a statement a string of protests over a holding company’s “landgrab” in their areas.
“Farmers deprived of their lands are launching a series of occupations of Socfin’s plantations in Cameroon, Liberia, Cambodia and Ivory Coast,” the International Alliance of Residents of Socfin Bollore’s Plantations said.
French company Bollore is a main shareholder in Luxembourg-based Socfin, which owns palm and rubber tree plantations in several African countries, Indonesia and Cambodia.
The first protest is set to hit the Cameroonian plantation of Didombarri on Thursday.
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Source:: PM Newspaper
