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In the 1500s, Europeans became consumed with a dark ambition: to descend upon Africa and seize its people. Their goal was simple and cruel--to capture Black men and women and transport them across the ...
News Liberia » Sinoe » Trade: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil must halt Liberian palm oil company’s abuses (commentary)
If you liked this story, share it with other people. For more than a decade, communities in Liberia have struggled against palm oil company Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), which has razed more than ...
News Liberia » Sinoe » Trade: Liberian rubber plantations ‘lawless’, says UN
Large areas of the Liberian countryside where former fighters control rubber plantations are ”lawless” and are putting plantation workers and their families at risk, according to a United Nations ...
News Liberia » Sinoe » Trade: Certified weaknesses: The RSPO’s Liberian fiasco (commentary)
On February 13, the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, the industry certification system for production of conflict-free palm oil, confirmed what many in Liberia’s rural Sinoe County have been saying ...
News Liberia » Sinoe » Trade: LIBERIA: Wild West – the Sinoe Rubber Plantation
Greenville, LIBERIA, Apr 8 2009 (IPS) - "We organised security throughout the camp. If there was noise in the plantation we would call the person and carry out an investigation," the man known as ...