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How a small Senegalese fishing community is challenging the fossil fuel industry
Greenpeace Africa's Board of Directors recently travelled to Bargny, a Senegalese town just 30 km from Dakar, to show their solidarity with the communities and activists there. Bargny is facing environmental threats that put it at the risk of collapse.
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How DRC’s Land Auction To Big Oil Threatens The World’s Biggest Carbon Sink
Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, a land auction to big oil is underway in a giant leap backwards for the climate.
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#CitizenClimate Series 05: James Wakibia
James is in the forefront of the battle line against plastic menace in rivers in Kenya. James actively tries to educate his 24 thousand followers on twitter on the dangers of plastic to the environment and how even by cleaning it up from the rivers like he does
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Greenpeace Africa remains committed to protecting biodiversity in 2023
Africa joined the international community to celebrate World Biodiversity Day under the theme "From Agreement to Action: Rebuilding Biodiversity".
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UN urged to stop the fossil fuel industry undermining new Global Plastics Treaty
Over 150 civil society groups and scientists from around the world, including ethologist, anthropologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace Dr. Jane Goodall, have signed on to an open letter urging the UN to act now - to prevent the fossil fuel industry from undermining negotiations to agree to an effective Global Plastics Treaty.
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Kenya Must Not BackSlide on Progress Made Against Plastic Pollution
Kenya is set to backslide on its own anti-plastic regulations following a proposal to remove excise duty from the locally produced plastics giving manufacturers a chance to revive plastic production.
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“I am about to kill those elephants” – how Industrial plantations displace protected elephants in Cameroon
“Tell the whole world that I am about to kill those elephants. If nothing is done, you will just see one day in the news that an elephant has been...
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Kenya’s Threatening Drought Cycle: The Way Forward.
Geographically, Kenya is strategically placed along the equatorial region with generally friendly climatic conditions that are moderate on both extreme ends. Despite receiving high and average amounts of rainfall, some…
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Leasing land to grow maize in Zambia; a slap on Kenyan farmers’ face: Greenpeace
Despite concerns raised by industry players over the move by Kenya’s ministry of Agriculture to grow maize in Zambia, Agriculture CS, Mithika Linturi has formally made known his ministry’s intention to continue with the plan to secure 20,000 hectares of land for large-scale growing of maize in the Southern Africa nation.
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Greenpeace Africa responds to Eskom irregular expenditure exemption
Responding to news that Eskom has been exempted from disclosing irregular and fruitless expenditure in its annual financial statements
