Cameroon’s Striking Workers Win Against French Sugar Giant Despite ‘Bloody Repression’

Longstanding labor unrest over low wages, union suppression, and unsafe work conditions at Cameroon’s largest sugar company, owned by a French agro-giant, erupted into a strike on January 26 over delayed payments.

After intense battles between the police and striking sugarcane workers in the cities of Nkoteng and Mbandjock, which left 150 hectares of the company’s crops ablaze, the Cameroon Sugar Corporation (SOSUCAM) reached an agreement with the union.

Conceding to several of its demands…