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3 Steps: Make a Reusable Face Mask
Greenpeace Africa volunteer Chemitei Janet shows us how to make a cloth reusable face mask to protect ourselves during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Collectively We Can Secure Kenya’s Food System
In Kenya’s agricultural landscape, small-holder farmers make up 70% of the farming population and account for 75% of national food production. The agricultural outputs contribute 31.5% of the GDP and…
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Keep Your Promise Mr. President, We Need 100% Green Energy This Year
Kenya has been severely hit by unseasonable heavy rains and an unprecedented infestation of locusts, that is devastating agricultural production. Heavy floods that are hitting the country have resulted in…
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Reusables can be used safely: Over 125 health experts fire back at the plastic industry
While the world is rightly preoccupied with tackling COVID-19, oil companies are pushing to produce more single-use plastic than ever before. So what do we need to know about plastic…
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How To Guide 2: Ensuring Healthy Soil for High Yields
This how to guide is designed for both farmers and consumers interested in growing healthy, safe and chemical free food. It is designed to help you understand what ecological agriculture is and it’s role in food safety and environmental protection. It also gives you a step by step guide on how to transition from conventional…
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Greenpeace Africa comments on loggers demands excluded from finance law revision
Yaoundé, 11 June 2020 – A request for massive tax reduction made two weeks ago by the loggers’ association GFBC was not included in the revision of the finance law…
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COVID-19 Lessons Call For Sharing and Learning to Co-create a Lasting Future
Kenyans have stepped up for over two months now and taken bold actions in the face of COVID-19 crisis. Many have woken up to the reality that we have been…
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“A chance for the ocean to recover”: on World Oceans Day, Senegal takes critical decisions
Dakar, 8 June, 2020 – On World Oceans Day, Senegal’s Minister of Fisheries rejected the licensing requests for 52 foreign new industrial fishing vessels. The decision follows weeks of campaigning…
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Greenpeace Africa concerned over PPE pollution
Durban, 03 June 2020 – The need for masks, latex gloves, and other single-use PPEs to reduce the spread of COVID-19 has increased but they are not being properly disposed of.
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Greenpeace Africa to Minister Ndongo: Tax breaks to logging companies might mean public funding for next pandemic
Yaoundé, 2 June 2020 – Greenpeace Africa calls on Mr. Jules Doret Ndongo, Cameroon’s Minister of Forests and Wildlife, to reject the request for tax reduction made last week by…