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Greenpeace Africa calls for fossil fuel phase-out and accelerated climate action on World Environment Day
On World Environment Day, Greenpeace Africa is calling on African governments to act on the climate emergency as extreme weather events continue to intensify across the continent, threatening lives, food systems, and the livelihoods of millions.
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Rural women are on the front line of the climate crisis. It is time the world acts like it.
This year's World Environment Day theme "From awareness to action" sounds urgent. But for the millions of rural women living alongside logging concessions, industrial agriculture and mining sites across Africa urgency is not a theme.
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The destruction of Imenti Forest is the latest price Kenya is paying for development it never needed
In September 2025, Greenpeace Africa sounded the alarm. Reports had emerged that 50 acres of Imenti Forest in Meru County were being considered for a State Lodge, a golf course and an airstrip - a directive said to have come from the President himself during a meeting with Meru leaders. We called for an immediate…
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Greenpeace Africa responds to BBC investigation revealing Shell knew of Niger Delta pipeline pollution risks and kept pumping
Internal Shell documents obtained by the BBC show that Shell continued operating the Nembe Creek Trunk Line in Nigeria for years while it knew the pipeline was causing widespread pollution, overriding warnings from its own technical executives and its own operating standards. Sections of the pipeline were classified "red" under Shell's own rules, a status…
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When the land speaks back: Tanzania’s Maasai are rejecting carbon credits on their land. The world should pay attention.
Somewhere in northern Tanzania, a Maasai elder knows the name of every ridge on the rangeland his cattle have grazed for decades. He knows which valleys hold water in a dry season, which corridors to follow when the rains fail, which months to move and which months to stay.
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The rising lakes of Kenya’s Rift Valley are swallowing communities whole
This is not a flood story. Floods recede. This is something else entirely: a lake that has been swallowing the Rift Valley for over a decade, and the communities stranded at its edge, waiting for help that has not come.
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The challenges ahead remain significant. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental injustice continue to threaten both people and ecosystems
Defined by urgency and possibility for climate and environmental justice across Africa, 2025 saw the continent and communities face the accelerating impacts of the climate crisis: floods, droughts, displacement, and increasing pressure on livelihoods and ecosystems.
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At Mbandaka, training forest guardians begins in schools
In Mbandaka, some realities cannot simply be explained — they must be lived. The forest is everywhere. It shapes the landscape, livelihoods, and the fragile balance that sustains daily life. And yet, this same forest is increasingly under threat.
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Siaya residents reject Kenya’s nuclear plant at public forum, and the government must listen
When hundreds of residents in Sakwa, Bondo Sub-County, stormed what was supposed to be a government public participation forum this week, they were not protesting a rumour. They were rejecting a decision that had already been made for them, without them.
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A world without bees: why pollinator decline threatens Africa’s food security
What if your favourite foods suddenly started disappearing from markets and dinner tables? No creamy avocados, fewer juicy mangoes, smaller watermelons, struggling coffee farms, and declining harvests season after season. I know it sounds dramatic but this is the reality we risk when pollinators like bees disappear.