All articles
-
Ramaphosa turns off the lights with cabinet non-shuffle
6 March 2023, Johannesburg – In response to President Ramaphosa’s long awaited cabinet reshuffle, which saw Minster Gwede Mantashe maintain his role as Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, and…
-
Greenpeace Africa activists disrupt Mantashe’s address at Africa Energy Indaba
Cape Town, 7 March 2023 – Today, Greenpeace Africa activists disrupted Minister Gwede Mantashe’s opening address at the Africa Energy Indaba at the Cape Town International Convention Center with banners…
-
Dr Oulie Keita appointed as Greenpeace Africa Executive Director
Mali-born development expert Dr. Oulie Keita has been appointed as Greenpeace Africa’s Substantive Executive Director after an intensive and competitive recruitment process to usher the organisation into a new wave of environmental justice.
-
The super rich control the food system – and now they are profiting from Africa’s rocketing food prices.
Figures published today by Greenpeace show that between 2008 and 2022, food imports rocketed by more than 650 per cent in Kenya.
-
Camvert: the arsonist of Cameroonian biodiversity
The agricultural corporation Camvert made the emptiest of gestures earlier this month, when it donated biodiversity protection equipment to a national park while continuing a massive programme of deforestation in FMU 09 025 in order to create an oil palm plantation. Greenpeace Africa dismissed the PR stunt as an attempt to distract from Camvert’s deliberate…
-
Greenpeace Africa calls on the Senegalese authorities to explain the suspicious presence of a Russian factory ship in Senegalese waters
Greenpeace Africa is revealing the suspicious presence of a Russian factory trawler in Senegalese waters.
-
Greenpeace Africa responds to State of the Nation Address
Johannesburg, 09 February – In response to President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address, Greenpeace Africa Climate and Energy Campaigner Nhlanhla Sibisi said:
-
Enough is enough
Today, I am on board the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise ship, as we confront the fossil fuel company, Shell, for its role in causing climate devastation around the world - while paying nothing for this destruction.
-
NGOs demand end to Congo oil auction after leak of secret trade-off deal
A coalition of civil society groups have called for the immediate cancellation of a massive oil and gas auction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following news of a secret deal between Oil Minister Didier Budimbu, Nigerian gambling tycoon Chukwuma Ayodeji Ojuroye, and US consultancy GeoSigmoid.
-
Cayar community launches new phase of legal challenge against polluting fishmeal factory after major campaign breakthrough.
The municipality of Cayar has banned the discharge of wastewater into a local lake and its surroundings, in a major win for a local community campaign against a nearby fishmeal factory and its polluting practices.