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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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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…
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Just transition key to addressing youth unemployment: Greenpeace Africa
21 March, Johannesburg – On Human Rights Day, Greenpeace Africa calls on the South African government to fast track a just transition to renewable energy. Doing so will prioritise South…
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International Women’s Day: Advocacy Groups Envision an Alternative Future for Women in South Africa
South Africa, March 8, 2022 – On International Women’s Day, advocacy groups analyse South Africa’s socio-economic stressors through a feminist lens, envisioning what an alternative future for women could look…
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March 8, 2022: A day of celebration against a backdrop of despair for women fish processors
“It is time for West African governments to stop the establishment of fishmeal factories and to take steps to ban the use of whole fish for human consumption in the fishmeal and fish oil factories that have already been set up," argued Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Oceans Campaigner at Greenpeace Africa.
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Greenpeace Africa strongly condemns acts of racism in the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Racism is part of the worst heritage we can leave to generations to come.The world cannot afford to add on its full plate of climate crisis, disruptive economic system, biodiversity crisis, RACISM.
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Global plastics treaty: big, bold step to end plastic pollution
March 2, 2022, Nairobi, Kenya: The United Nations Environment Assembly announced today the outcome of the UNEA 5.2 meeting adopting a mandate to open negotiations for a legally binding global…
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Greenpeace Africa Calls on Governments to Endorse a Legally Binding Global Plastics Treaty
For the first time in history, consideration of a global plastics treaty to tackle the plastic crisis is one of the top priorities in the upcoming talks set to begin in Nairobi this week. Greenpeace Africa calls on all UN Member States to support the most comprehensive draft resolution and to adopt further measures to…
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Minister Godongwana misses the mark: Greenpeace Africa
Johannesburg, 23 February – Responding to Minister Godongwana’s Budget speech today, Greenpeace Africa Climate and Energy Campaigner Thandile Chinyavanhu said:
