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Africa 2026 floods: How climate change and poor planning are drowning a continent
Every rainy season, the water comes for us. And every season, we call it a disaster, as if we did not watch it approach.
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Kenya’s Imenti forest “public participation” forum was illegitimate, exclusionary and conducted in defiance of a court order
Today, civil society organisations attending the Kenya Forest Service public participation forum on the proposed Imenti Forest airstrip witnessed a process so fundamentally compromised that it cannot, in good conscience, be recognised as meaningful public participation under any legal or constitutional standard.
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The double standard of toxic pesticides and the legal case for corporate accountability in Africa
Africa’s food sovereignty and public health should never be the collateral damage of global chemical dumping. For years, a silent but deadly double standard has played out across the African continent, hiding in plain sight within our agricultural value chains.
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Coalition warns of plan to open tens of millions of hectares of DRC’s forests to timber industry
A coalition of more than 70 environmental and human rights organisations are calling on the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to maintain the national moratorium on the allocation of new industrial logging concessions.
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Global Day to Fight Inequality calls for fair taxation to build more equal societies
As communities around the world mark the Global Day to Fight Inequality, Greenpeace Africa is calling on governments to strengthen fair and equitable taxation policies that can help reduce inequality, improve public services and mobilise greater investment in climate action.
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Ghana’s deadly floods are not a natural disaster. They’re a wake up call
Picture this. Monday night, close to 1am and my mother sends me a string of videos. I was fast asleep at that time, so they were the first thing I woke up to. It hit me like an alarm…a bad dream. My dear grandmother's home was flooded. Inundated. Unrecognizable.
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A tale of two oceans: Celebrating whale migration in South Africa as whale dies on Atlantic shores of DRC
As the whale festival season reminds us of the beauty and majesty of these incredible creatures, let the loss at Muanda remind us of our responsibility. Whales don’t have a voice to protest the plastic in their bellies or the ships cutting through their homes. We have to be that voice.
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Greenpeace Africa joins coalition calling on presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Yoweri Museveni to prevent oil expansion in the Albertine Graben around Lake Albert
Greenpeace Africa has joined a broad coalition of Congolese, Ugandan and international civil society organisations in signing an open letter addressed to Presidents Félix Tshisekedi and Yoweri Museveni.
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Minerals, not mercy: what Kenya must learn before signing away its resources
When President Ruto stood on the sidelines of the G7 summit and announced Kenya was close to a minerals deal with the United States, the language used was the language of partnership: investment, not aid. In country processing, not extraction. A new chapter, not a repeat of the old one.