Liberia: Miners, Loggers Clash over Gbarpolu Forest
Liberia: Miners, Loggers Clash over Gbarpolu Forest
A View of Korninga “B” Community Forest. FrontPageAfrica/Moses R. Quollin
KORNINGA, Gbarpolu County – On March 4 2019, Korninga B, an authorized forest community, signed a logging contract with Singaporean-Indian logging company Indo Africa Plantation Liberia Incorporated. To log in the 31,818-hectare forest in the Bopolu and Bokomu districts, the company promised to make an annual contribution of US$ 30,000 for scholarships, US$25,000 for medical support, annual road maintenance and other things within the first six months after signing the agreement. Indo Africa also promised to build a youth center in the chiefdom.