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Allowing Plastic Importation is Going Back on the Commitments of a Plastic-Free Kenya
This August marked 3 years since Kenya instituted a ban on single-use plastic carrier bags. So many things have happened since this ban came into effect 3 years ago.
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5 influential voices spoke up for Kenya’s Plastic Ban – and you should too!
Several of the world’s most influential voices took to social media when the news broke, expressing disgust at this attack on Africa’s plastic-free progress. Here’s what they had to say
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An interview with the directors of GUTTED: A documentary on the harmful impacts of industrial fishing on Cape Town’s communities
We sat down with Angelo Louw (AL), Greenpeace Africa’s Digital Mobilisation Officer and Plastics Lead, and filmmaker Malcolm Rainers (MR) to talk about their process and passion to make sure stories and voices like these are centered in the fight for environmental justice
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Ban the Bag: Greenpeace Africa implores public to comment on plastic regulations
Johannesburg, 02 September 2020 — The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has called for public comment on amendments to plastic bag regulations[1] which favour recycling, a false solution to…
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Industry Lobby The US Government to Make Africa Backslide on Plastics
The American Chemistry Council has lobbied the US government during the COVID-19 pandemic to use a US-Kenya trade deal to expand the plastics industry’s footprint across Africa.
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Renewable Energy is the Key to Cheaper Electricity in Kenya
As the country strives to meet the goal of universal access to electricity, huge development needs to take place in Kenya’s energy sector.
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“False Solutions” to Plastic Pollution Impact the Forest
Greenpeace Africa Campaigner Awa Traoré explains why substituting single-use plastic with paper is a “false solution” to the plastic pollution crisis
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Greenpeace Africa and Rainforest Rescue: Joint statement following the suspension of logging plans for Ebo forest
Yaoundé, 13 August 2020: The Cameroon Prime Minister’s office announced the suspension of logging plans in Ebo forest* on Tuesday, 11 August. The suspension of logging plans, which Greenpeace Africa…
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COVID-19 and Indigenous Forest Communities: untold stories from the Congo Basin
The Indigenous Baka People of Cameroon
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Cutting the Hand that Feeds: The Plight of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
In the pre-colonial days of the early 1900s, Africans predominantly farmed finger millet, sorghum, pearl millet, amaranth, jute mallow, spider plant, and lablab, among other indigenous crops. The farms were…
