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Greenpeace Africa launches community experience-sharing workshop on local forest initiatives in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
Mbandaka, 28 April 2025 - Greenpeace Africa is excited to announce the launch of a pivotal community experience-sharing workshop dedicated to local forest initiatives focused on sustainable forest and food solutions.
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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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Greenpeace Africa responds to Kenya Forest Service’s denial of forest threats
Greenpeace Africa condemns the Kenya Forest Service’s (KFS) misleading claims that Kenya’s forests are not under threat.
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Cameroon: Greenpeace Africa calls on the government to cancel the decree creating Ma Mbed Mbed Park
Cameroon’s Far North is already facing significant challenges, particularly concerning security, and is one of the regions most affected by climate change. Last year, it experienced multiple waves of flooding. Food insecurity remains a persistent issue.
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DRC Green Corridor Project: Greenpeace Africa cautiously welcomes “World’s Largest Forest Reserve”, urges inclusive approach
Greenpeace Africa welcomes the creation of the Kivu to Kinshasa Green Corridor Reserve, an ambitious initiative to establish a vast protected area of more than 54,000 km², which will be dedicated to the conservation and sustainable management of natural resources.
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Cameroon: In Campo, local residents express their annoyance with Camvert
The population of Campo in the south region of Cameroon have taken to the streets to express their dissatisfaction with the companies CAMVERT, SOPHONY and BOISCAM.
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Construction or destruction? How Kenya’s development plans are pushing forests to the brink
We are deeply concerned about the ongoing destruction of Kenya’s vital forests, with recent developments threatening critical ecosystems in the Aberdare, Karura, and Suam forests
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In Congo-Brazzaville UN Deputy Secretary-General Greenwashes an Ecocidal Oil Permit
Following her visit to the Republic of Congo's Conkouati-Douli National Park on 6 July, Greenpeace Africa calls on the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Amina Mohammed to denounce the government’s decision to award an oil and gas exploration permit there last February.
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The Cameroon Climate Justice Movement calls on the Minister of the Environment to take action against deforestation
Greenpeace Africa has just launched the Cameroonian Climate Justice Movement (CCJM) in Cameroon.
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DRC: Greenpeace denounces the illicit allocation of a million hectares of forest to an American company
At a time when the DRC is buzzing with wild rumors about Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba’s possible role in a new government, Greenpeace Africa is calling on her to explain her award last year of hundreds of thousands of hectares of so-called “conservation” concessions in excess of the legal limit.
