Following the publication of a Mongabay article, police and authorities have harassed and summoned civil society activists in Cameroon for questioning five times. The Mongabay investigation, which reported and verified the working conditions at plantations operated by the leading Cameroonian sugar producer, the Cameroon Sugar Corporation (SOSUCAM), includes denunciations by the activists against the company…

… activists from the organization have responded to other, similar summonses to appear before the General Delegation for National Security (DGSN) at Cameroonian police headquarters in Yaoundé as well as …Some of these summonses have not included formal notice…

The leaders of #OnEstEnsemble did not know why they had been summoned until they arrived at police headquarters…

…SOSUCAM is a subsidiary of the French group SOMDIAA, which manufactures and markets food commodities and runs six sugar cane plantations across Africa.

…Mongabay published its own investigation revealing SOSUCAM’s poor practices in workplace accident management as well as allegations of environmental...The police interrogations of the organization’s activists began thereafter…

Police Commissioner Roland Tata Dogo… surreptitiously admitted that SOSUCAM is closely connected to the many police-issued summonses. He also confirmed the summonses began following a complaint made by the company…