A view of oil palm groves on the Socapalm plantation from the village of Apouh. Mongabay | 9 September 2025Palm oil giant Socapalm still planting on disputed land in Cameroon as villagers seek redressby Victoria SchneiderA land dispute between residents of a Cameroonian village and a major palm oil company remains unresolved despite protests and requests for meetings with authorities, NGOs and community members say. Residents of Apouh village in the country’s Littoral region have long accused Socapalm, a subsidiary of Luxembourg-based multinational Socfin, of encroaching on their ancestral land to establish its oil palm plantation. In late March this year, residents protested against Socapalm replanting oil palms on contested land, insisting it should be returned to them as part of a land retrocession process. “We raised the issue of the Apouh village incident with the company earlier this year, including concerns about the police presence.