When Leopold II, King of Belgium, set about creating his own colony in the Congo, he used elephants - and barbaric cruelty - to clear the impenetrable jungle ...

Johan Grimonprez uses archival footage of the period to expose the CIA-backed assassination of Congo leader Patrice Lumumba ...

Acreage expansion off the table despite surging palm oil demand Dr. Rizal Affandi Lukman is the Secretary General ...

Director Johan Grimonprez discusses Soundtrack to a Coup d'État, his powerful exploration of Congo's decolonization struggle, in conversation with Peter Mertens, Belgian political leader and author of ...

On May 12 last year, Bendu Sonii, 42, a casual laborer with Mano Oil Palm Industries, left for a friend’s house. She did not know that would be the last day she ever walked. By Matenneh Keita, with ...

The transatlantic slave trade commodified African labour, extracting millions of lives to fuel plantation economies in the ... Mineral-rich regions, such as the Congo, were plundered for copper, ...

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Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL) faces one of its factories’ potential shutdown due to severe encroachment on its plantation by illegal mining activities. “We are unable to access parts of ...

Thousands of Firestone Liberia LLC’s rubber plantation contract workers who went on strike on Jan. 30 to protest against poor ...

Ghana Rubber Estates Limited (GREL) faces one of its factories’ potential shutdowns due to severe encroachment on its plantation by illegal mining activities. The Corporate Affairs Manager-GREL ...

In a bid to boost employment opportunities to absorb the numerous unemployed youth, traditional leaders in Twifo Kayireku and ...