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The Kivu–Kinshasa Green Corridor: Red Flags And The Urgent Need For A Moratorium On New Extractive Projects
This brief raises profound contradictions between the Corridor’s conservation objectives and the expansion of extractive industries. Areas intended to serve as a model for sustainable development and community-led stewardship are now exposed to the risks associated with oil exploration and production, as well as mining activities that will result in deforestation and habitat fragmentation.
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We’re taking JBS, the world’s largest meat company, to court over its Nigeria expansion
JBS, a global meat empire controlled by two billionaire brothers, wants to stay in the shadows while they export their destructive business model to Nigeria. That’s why we’re taking them to court to reveal the truth.
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I was a journalist student, not a climate statistic: how the floods in Cameroon shaped my life
Last Month, it rained again in Yaoundé. Rain, which was once seen as a blessing has now been a crippling cause of anxiety in my country.
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Greenpeace Africa statement on the proposed Dangote oil refinery in Lamu
No approvals should move forward without a full, independent environmental and social impact assessment, genuine public participation, and transparent scrutiny of the long-term economic, health and ecological risks.
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Ban the bag: Greenpeace Africa demands a total ban on single-use plastic carrier bags in South Africa
As Plastic Free July gets underway, Greenpeace Africa is urging the South African government to ban single-use plastic carrier bags by December 2026. South Africa's plastic bag levy, introduced in 2004, has failed to curb plastic pollution and must be replaced with stronger regulation.
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DRC Environment Minister commits to uphold logging moratorium, as CSOs call for lasting protection of the Congo Basin
Our organisations, members of a coalition of 70 Congolese and international organisations working to protect human rights and the environment, welcome the public statement by Marie Nyange Ndambo, Minister of the Environment, Development and New Climate Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reaffirming that the moratorium on the allocation of new industrial…
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Africa 2026 floods: How climate change and poor planning are drowning a continent
Every rainy season, the water comes for us. And every season, we call it a disaster, as if we did not watch it approach.
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Kenya’s Imenti forest “public participation” forum was illegitimate, exclusionary and conducted in defiance of a court order
Today, civil society organisations attending the Kenya Forest Service public participation forum on the proposed Imenti Forest airstrip witnessed a process so fundamentally compromised that it cannot, in good conscience, be recognised as meaningful public participation under any legal or constitutional standard.
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The double standard of toxic pesticides and the legal case for corporate accountability in Africa
Africa’s food sovereignty and public health should never be the collateral damage of global chemical dumping. For years, a silent but deadly double standard has played out across the African continent, hiding in plain sight within our agricultural value chains.