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Statement Upon Conclusion of Independent Human Rights Investigation.

8th May 2025

Since December 2023, a team comprising of specialist lawyers from Omnia Strategy LLP and Doughty Street Chambers have been conducting an independent investigation into allegations of human rights violations against local communities and autochthone populations occurring in or connected to the Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the Republic of the Congo. The allegations, raised by Survival International and others, implicated African Parks Network and the Odzala-Kokoua-Lossi Foundation, notably through the alleged wrongdoing of ecoguards.

Our investigation has now concluded.

 

A fully downloadable statement by Omnia Strategy in English is available in pdf format here.

A fully downloadable statement by Omnia Strategy in French is available in pdf format here.