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Liberia: Sirleaf Admits Missteps in Awarding Investment Contracts
FrontPageAfrica, 28 April 2013
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's intervention in a long-running, controversial land saga in oil-palm rich Sinoe County has paved the way for the smooth operations of Golden… Read more »
Liberia: 'Missteps' in Awarding Contracts - President
Following criticism from environmental groups that concessionaires were destroying local farmland and shrines, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has acknowledged that the agreements signed with the company were marred by problems from the start.
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Liberia: The Plantation Blues
allAfrica, 29 February 2012
Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. Read more »
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Liberia: Ellen Wants Companies Relinquish Lands
New Dawn, 8 April 2013
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has asked agricultural companies occupying more land then they can now cultivate to consider relinquishing those areas to affected communities for… Read more »
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Liberia: Rural Dwellers Convene Solidarity Forum
NEWS, 9 September 2012
Senate Pro-tempore Gbehzohngar Findley speaks on natural resources today in Kon Town, Grand Cape County at a forum being organized by a group of rural dwellers. The forum organized… Read more »
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Liberia: Foreign Investors Accused of Ordering Eviction
NEWS, 19 December 2012
Citizens of several towns and villages in Butaw District, Sinoe County, have alleged that Golden Veroleum has threatened to evict them from their ancestral homeland to grow oil… Read more »
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Liberia: Gov't Admits Error in Signing Some Concession Agreements
Heritage, 20 November 2012
The Government of Liberia (GoL) through the National Investment Commission (NIC) has admitted errors in some concession agreements it signed with concessionaires. Speaking at a… Read more »
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Liberia: Golden Veroleum 'Illegally' Clears Farmland
Informer, 20 August 2012
Tension is brewing in the Eastern Region over the business tactics of Golden Veroleum, a Company that made an investment of US$1.6 billion for the development of the oil palm… Read more »
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Liberia: Bomi Gives Sime Darby Green Light
New Democrat, 11 April 2013
Days of deadlock between Sime Darby and residents of Golodi village in Bomi County has ended thanks to the mediation of the Independent National Human Rights Commission (INHRC) and… Read more »
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Liberia: Citizens Divided Over Sime Darby
New Dawn, 5 April 2013
The Malaysian oil palm company Sime Darby has sacked 652 contractors in Grand Cape Mount and Bomi counties, citing blocked expansion plans as the reason. Read more »
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Liberia: 'We Need More Land'
New Republic, 27 March 2013
Since its operations started in 2009 in Bomi and Grand Cape Mount Counties, the management of Sime Darby Plantation-Liberia has informed the citizens of both counties that the most… Read more »
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The future activities of Kuala Lumpur-based Sime Darby, one of the most prominent in a club of new, high-profile investors committed to long-term projects in Liberia, are meant ... Read more »
