Liberia: NGO to Assist Citizens Protect Their Land from Government Officials, Companies in Bomi

Jan 29, 2020 | Lennart Dodoo, FrontPage Africa
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A nongovernmental organization, Sustainable Development Institute (SDI), has begun working with local people in Bomi to empower them resist a wave of land grab in that western county led by elites and concessioners. The “Protecting Communities and Forests against a Surge in Land-grabs in Bomi” project, which the NGO said would officially begin in Tubmanburg on Wednesday, is a follow-up to its 2019 report on the situation in the county. That report found that the officials, with help from tribal chiefs and elders, possibly converted more than 9,000 acres of land in the Senjeh, Klay and Suehn-Mecca Districts. Sime Darby, which was taken over by Mano Manufacturing Company (MANCO) earlier this month, has over 300,000 hectares, largely in Bomi.