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  • "End Financial Apartheid" Action in Durban, South Africa. © Chanho Kondolo / Greenpeace
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    Greenpeace: Ramaphosa, G20 must end financial apartheid with tax on super-rich

    Greenpeace Africa has demanded G20 host and South African President Ramaphosa push ahead on accelerating efforts to impose a wealth tax on the world’s billionaires and to support the UN Tax Convention for new and fair global tax rules.  

    Ibrahima Ka Ndoye
    16 July 2025
    3 min read
  • G20 - Tax The Super Rich - Action in Pretoria. © Natanya Harrington / Greenpeace
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    From Bezos’ wedding to Sevilla’s streets: A global demand to tax the super-rich

    On June 23rd, just days before Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s Venice wedding, Greenpeace Italy and UK grassroots group called Everyone Hates Elon dropped a 20-meter banner in Piazza San Marco: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax”.

    Amrita Ranjit
    15 July 2025
  • Banner Action in Venice, Italy. © Greenpeace / Michele Lapini
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    GreenpeaceAfrica

    Bezos’ Venice wedding divorced from reality: Why it’s time to tax the super-rich

    On June 23rd, together with “Everyone Hates Elon”, we took over Venice’s Piazza San Marco with a 20-meter banner of billionaire Jeff Bezos.

    Amrita Ranjit
    25 June 2025
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    One year on: reaffirming the right to peaceful protest and civic participation in Kenya

    As we mark one year since the Finance Bill demonstrations of June 25, 2024, Greenpeace Africa expresses its solidarity with the people of Kenya, particularly young Kenyans, who continue to engage constructively in national conversations around justice, accountability, and inclusive governance.

    Greenpeace Africa
    24 June 2025
  • Climate Justice Camp in Tanzania. © Malembo Simbano / Greenpeace
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    Forests Oceans Biodiversity Plastics Food GreenpeaceAfrica

    62 years on: it’s time to repair, reclaim and rise

    As the African Union (AU) marked 62 years since the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the occasion was more than a celebration of history -it was a clarion call.

    Dorine Nininahazwe
    2 June 2025
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    Thank you for being part of this movement!

    Thank you for being part of this movement. Our work is far from over, and with your support, we will continue to rise, resist, and reclaim our planet.

    Dr. Oulie Keita, Greenpeace Africa Executive Director
    16 May 2025
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    Energy GreenpeaceAfrica Food

    Historic breakthrough: over 40 Nigerian civil society organisations unite to launch climate justice movement

    Abuja, Nigeria: May 7, 2025 -In a watershed moment for the promotion of environmental justice in Nigeria, more than 40 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) joined forces to launch the Nigerian Climate Justice Movement (CJM).

    Ferdinand Omondi
    7 May 2025
    3 min read
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    100 days of Trump & his billionaires’ war on the environment

    Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.

    Greenpeace Africa
    30 April 2025
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    Stakes high as G20 ministers miss opportunity to pursue solidarity, wealth tax

    Washington, D.C. – A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers has failed to deliver a key signal of solidarity as ongoing economic turmoil led to difficult talks in Washington D.C. and slowed progress on critical reforms to tax the world’s super-rich.

    Greenpeace Africa
    25 April 2025
    1 min read
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    Billionaire joy rides to space: the ultimate symbol of privilege and pollution

    While millions of people around the world are struggling to afford basic necessities like food, healthcare, and shelter, and nature destruction skyrockets, the Blue Origin company, founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, has been launching super-rich people and their friends into space on joy rides that cost tens of millions of dollars. 

    Jackie Zamora
    23 April 2025
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