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Greenpeace Africa calls on Senegal to follow Mauritania’s example in transparency on industrial fishing licenses
Welcoming the launch of Mauritania’s Report to the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI), yesterday, Monday 25 April 2022, Abdoulaye NDIAYE, Oceans Campaigner for Greenpeace Africa urges Senegal to follow Mauritania’s example…
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Why be optimistic about Mauritius after the oil spill?
This blog presents our rapid response work in Mauritius following the 2021 oil spill, along with some of the positive outcomes that would help this never happens again
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DR Congo chooses oil over rainforests and human rights: Greenpeace Africa calls to scrap “historic error” to auction 16 new oil blocks
The Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has approved at the fortieth meeting of the council of ministers last week a plan to auction 16 oil blocks. This action would have cataclysmic consequences for the global climate and local communities.
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GPAF calls for climate action after KZN floods
13 April, Johannesburg – The devastating torrential rains in Kwa-Zulu Natal continue to claim lives, and drive loss, damage and displacements in the region. This has quickly become a humanitarian…
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1000 red masks unmask 52 boats in search of fishing permits in Senegal!
While the pandemic of COVID 19 is raging in all the regions of Senegal and affects the activities of many fishermen, the Senegalese authorities through its Ministry of Fisheries, wanted by masked maneuvers, granted 52 fishing licenses to foreign boats.
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Joint letter to the Secretariat and Board Members of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and members of the Inter-donor Group for the Environment in DRC (GIBE)
We are writing in response to the General Inspectorate of Finance’s (IGF) audit of industrial logging concessions in DRC published by the Environment Ministry on April 1, and to ask that you take swift and appropriate measures to address its damning findings, including that the national logging moratorium be extended indefinitely.
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Global Plastic Treaty: Efforts Towards Turning off the Plastic Tap
In early March, global leaders and delegates from over 175 nations made history in Nairobi during UNEA 5.2 when they passed a mandate to start negotiations for a legally binding global plastics treaty that addresses the full life cycle of plastic pollution from production, transport to use and disposal. Negotiations are set to open later…
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The logging audit that spells disaster for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its donors
Kinshasa, 1 April 2022: After three months of pressure from Greenpeace Africa, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo has finally backed down: it realized it was no longer possible not to publish an explosive 2020 audit by the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) slamming the “culpable laxism” of the Environment Ministry and the…
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Senegal’s Presidential Council on Fisheries: We’re still waiting
Dakar, 31 March: Greenpeace Africa reminds the President of the Republic of his commitment to hold a presidential council on fishing.
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400,000 hectares of forest under threat in Cameroon: local communities are enraged, Greenpeace and its partners indignant.
The Ministry of Forests and Wildlife wants to allocate nearly 400,000 hectares of forest to logging concessions according to a decree made public in December 2021. Greenpeace Africa and its partners Green Development Advocates (GDA) and Service d'Appui aux Initiatives Locales de Développement (SAILD) see such a decision as one of the too many threats…