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Committed Political Leadership and Regional Cooperation Needed to Address Africa’s Climate Emergency.
Climate change and COVID-19 continue to wreak havoc upon communities in Africa. Droughts, floods, cyclones, and locust invasions have caused far reaching damage to communities, livelihoods, ecosystems and infrastructure.
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Greenpeace Africa responds to worsening Gauteng air quality
Air pollution in South Africa has reached dangerously unhealthy levels. Twice in the last week residents across several communities in Johannesburg and Pretoria were exposed to high levels of Sulphur dioxide (SO2) pollution.
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Greenpeace Africa calls for full disclosure around state spying
Responding to a reading by Advocate Pretorius at today’s State Capture Enquiry.
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Outbreaks of waterborne diseases due to cyclones
Eloise is the third major cyclone to hit Southern Africa since 2019, causing displacement, destruction of homes, schools, crops and vital infrastructure in Mozambique, as well as Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Botswana
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Climate change and overfishing – an explosive cocktail in West Africa
Torn between the advancement of desertification and drought on the one hand and floods, sea level increases and coastal erosion on the other, the West African region, which has 340 million inhabitants spread over 16 countries, is one of the three regions battling the climatic humanitarian disaster of our century.
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Combatting Gender-Based Violence during COVID-19
With the threat of the current climate crisis, economic recession and the COVID-19 global pandemic, the women of South Africa face another threat daily – gender-based violence (GBV).
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Extreme weather: Durban… Easter 2019
Living in Durban has its advantages, golden beaches, good all-year weather and we always seem to be on holiday to the rest of South Africa
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Nurdle Hurdle: The Department of Environment Needs to Take Bold Action and Ban Single-Use Plastic
Responding to reports that plastic nurdles are washing up in the Southern Cape and on Cape Town beaches, Greenpeace Africa Plastic Campaign Lead Angelo Louw has said
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Cutting The Hand That Feeds: Kenya’s Government Plans to Shift Farmers Out of Farming
Kenya’s government and the Ministry of Agriculture want to shift farmers out of agriculture by commercialising Kenya's agriculture sector through a new agricultural policy, the agricultural sector transformation and growth strategy
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As COVID-19 locks down West Africa, its waters remain open to plunder
In the West African region and in Senegal in particular, the fishing sector has faced many difficulties in recent decades. The containment imposed by COVID-19 has been a godsend for the plunderers of West Africa's maritime resources.
