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By Francis H. Murray The environmental campaign group, Green Scenery, has expressed dissatisfaction over the attitude of the District Officer (DO) of Pujehun, who they said “illegally” prevented their donor partners from monitoring sponsored projects in the district.
Some community members accuse Socfin of land-grabbing and pollution. We visited the company’s plantation in Malen to find out what’s happening beneath the palm fronds.
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By Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya Green Scenery a local nongovernmental organization has held an end of year meeting on the voluntary guidelines on the responsible governance of the tenure of land fisheries and forest resources. The one day refection meeting was organized at the Family Kingdom resort along Aberdeen Beach on Thursday 22nd December 2016 with the presence of key stakeholders on the environment and land related issues in the country. The main objective of the reflection meeting is to help stimulate discussion and outlook of the implementation of the voluntary guidelines with key target...
Joaquin M. Sendolo and Alieu Sahid Tonkara NIMBA, Liberia & LUNSAR, SIERRA LEONE – In December 2019, conflict broke out between an international mining company and the leadership of three forest-dwelling communities of Nimba County in north eastern Liberia. The communities accused the company of illegal entry into the 2,169-acre mountainous forestland. The company, Solway Mining Incorporated, expressed surprise. Liberia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy had issuedit, a license to explore for iron ore in the two forests, which border the East Nimba Nature Reserve and area leased to ArcelorMit...