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READ: Greenpeace Africa Annual Report 2024
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South Africa’s water crisis is a crime against the people
Across South Africa, a silent emergency is unfolding. What might seem like isolated water outages or occasional sewage spills is, in reality, a national disaster. One that’s steadily eroding our environment, our dignity, and our rights.
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100 days of Trump & his billionaires’ war on the environment
Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.
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Billionaire joy rides to space: the ultimate symbol of privilege and pollution
While millions of people around the world are struggling to afford basic necessities like food, healthcare, and shelter, and nature destruction skyrockets, the Blue Origin company, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has been launching super-rich people and their friends into space on joy rides that cost tens of millions of dollars.
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Lagos is drowning in Nigeria’s plastic and e-waste crisis
Every day, Lagos gets tons of old phones, broken TVs, and outdated computers. People throw them away as quickly as they get new ones. But these gadgets don’t just disappear.
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GMOs, Corporate Control, and the Future of Africa’s Food System
Kenya's Court of Appeals recent decision to halt the government's push for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is a major victory for not only food sovereignty, but farmers' rights, and environmental justice.
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Protecting African forests from Kenya to the Congo: a call for global action at COP 30
#WorldForestDay - As a campaigner on the frontline of the battle to protect Kenyan forests, my heart aches every day as I witness the devastating destruction unfolding around me. Not just in Kenya but across the African continent forests are being threatened by government and private interests.
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You can’t sue away the truth: we reject corporate intimidation
From North America to Africa, corporate and political interests are deploying aggressive legal tactics to silence activists and civil society organizations who speak up against their environmental and social injustices.
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Broken pipes, broken promises: Johannesburg’s water woes
The amount of plastics produced and flowing into the environment has reached crisis point, with approximately 400 million tonnes of plastics produced every year and this number is set to triple by 2060.
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Plastic design changes: a greenwashing tactic
The amount of plastics produced and flowing into the environment has reached crisis point, with approximately 400 million tonnes of plastics produced every year and this number is set to triple by 2060.