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Pour diffusion immédiateContacts :Frédéric Mousseau, Oakland Institute (EN, FR): [email protected], +15105125458Ardo Sow, Ndiaël Collective (FR): [email protected], +221776286798Giulia Franchi, Re:Common (EN, IT): [email protected], +393397077481Renée Vellvé, GRAIN (EN, FR, ES): [email protected], +33675073468 Oakland, CA - Benjamin Dummai, le Directeur général de Senhuile SA , un projet agroalimentaire italo – sénégalais qui occupe illégitimement 20.000 hectares dans le nord du Sénégal, a été congédié par son conseil d'administration et arrêté par les autorités sénégalaises la

For Immediate ReleaseMedia Contacts:Frédéric Mousseau, Oakland Institute (EN, FR): [email protected], +15105125458Ardo Sow, Ndiaël Collective (FR): [email protected], +221776286798Giulia Franchi, Re:Common (EN, IT): [email protected], +393397077481Renée Vellvé, GRAIN (EN, FR, ES): [email protected], +33675073468 Oakland, CA – Benjamin Dummai, the Director-General of Senhuile SA, an Italian-Senegalese agribusiness project illegitimately occupying 20,000 hectares in northern Senegal, was fired by the company’s board of directors and arrested by Senegalese authorities last week.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---EMBARGOED April 10, 2014, 10 am EDTMEDIA CONTACT: Kristen Thomaselli(202) 471-4228 ext.

---POUR PUBLICATION IMMEDIATE--- EMBARGO 10 Avril, 10h, EDTCONTACT MEDIA:Frédéric [email protected]+ 1 510 512 54 58OAKLAND, Californie (10 Avril) – Alors que les réunions de printemps de la Banque Mondiale vont s’ouvrir à Washington DC, 180 groupes, ONG, syndicats, organisations paysannes et de consommateurs originaires de plus de 80 pays demandent que la Banque mette fin à ses classements Doing Business et à ses activités soutenant l’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE---EMBARGOED March 31, 2014, 10 am EDTMEDIA CONTACT: Kristen Thomaselli(202) 471-4228 ext. [email protected] OAKLAND, Calif.

---POUR PUBLICATION IMMEDIATE---EMBARGO 31 Mars 2014, 10 am EDT CONTACT MEDIA: Frédéric [email protected]+ 1 510 512 54 58 OAKLAND, Californie (31 Mars) - Aujourd'hui, l'Oakland Institute et /The Rules en collaboration avec d'autres ONG, organisations paysannes et de consommateurs du monde entier lancent une campagn, Nos terres, Notre Business, visant à dénoncer le rôle de la Banque Mondiale dans le phénomène d’accaparement des terres et des ressources naturelles qui touche les populations les plus pauvres dans le monde.

The communities of the northern Senegalese region of Ndiaël stand in opposition against the Senhuile-Sénéthanol project, which deprives them of access to their lands and threatens their basic means of subsistence. The actions of this Italian-Senegalese company pose a grave threat to the food sovereignty of 9,000 inhabitants in the affected region. This land grab was implemented without taking into account the rights of the local people.

Take actionFor Immediate ReleaseContact: [email protected]; +1-510-512-5458 Oakland, CA: A new report released by the Oakland Institute reveals how the lives and livelihoods of more than 9,000 pastoralists and a protected ecosystem in northwestern Senegal are directly threatened by a foreign-controlled 20,000-hectare plantation.

Farmers and herders from northwestern Senegal have travelled to Europe to demand the scrapping of a land deal that threatens the lives and livelihoods of some 9,000 people. A murky international conglomerate, Senhuile SA, has leased 20,000 hectares of land in the Ndiaël Reserve, land which has been used for decades by residents of some 40 villages in the area. The villagers want the project stopped, saying it will cut off their access to grazing land, water, food, and firewood–-ultimately forcing them off their homes and land.

--Embargoed until 9:00 a.m. EST, Tuesday, February 18, 2014-- MEDIA CONTACT:Kristen Thomaselli(202) 471-4228 ext. [email protected], Calif. (Feb. 18) -- The wolves of Wall Street are eyeing millions of acres of U.S.