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Illicit Gold Trade: Greenpeace Africa demands immediate freeze on new gold concessions in Cameroon
Yaoundé, June 16, 2026 – Between 2021 and 2025, an estimated 44,000 kilograms (44 tons) of gold left Cameroon for Dubai, while Cameroon customs declared only 148 kilograms for export. The value of this gold is estimated at nearly 2,000 billion CFA francs (approximately USD 3.4 billion), equivalent to the annual budget of the Ministry…
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A message in the sand: Greenpeace Africa opens Global Oceans Conference with a demand African governments can not ignore
Greenpeace Africa today unveiled a large-scale sand art installation at “Pirates” Beach, sending a clear and urgent message to African governments gathering for the United Nations Ocean Conference (June 16–18): protect Africa’s oceans and the millions of people who depend on them.
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Initial White smoke from Bonn: As we pave the way for the COP 31 in Turkiye, what’s happened so far?
The first week has seen countries push to make progress on climate action, including on items such as climate finance, climate adaptation, mitigation, just transition, energy, ambition as anchored in the Paris Agreement.
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World Food Safety Day 2026: Africa’s Youth to Leaders – If It Is Not Safe, It Is Not Food
On 7th June, governments and institutions around the world marked World Food Safety Day with statements, commitments, and carefully worded pledges. My generation marked it differently, with questions about why the food system that is supposed to feed our future is poisoning it instead.
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A peaceful haven on Senegal’s Petite Côte
Across the Sine-Saloum Delta, they hold the shoreline together the way a mother steadies a child learning to walk. When storms gather strength and waves crash against the coast, the mangroves take the first blow.
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They came to grieve Nairobi National Park. They left in police trucks.
Kenyans gathered to mourn. Not a person, but a place. They came for a funeral procession for Nairobi National Park, the world's only national park inside a capital city, gazetted in 1946 and now facing yet another bite out of its protected land.
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Understanding the Climate Debt of Extreme Wealth
A very small group of ultra-wealthy individuals is associated with disproportionate climate harm, driven alarmingly by their ownership of and investments in high-emitting activities alongside their carbon-intensive lifestyles, a new Greenpeace Africa report revealed. The report found that climate responsibility is far more concentrated than previously understood.
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With just 3.09% of its ocean protected, Senegal’s coastal communities bring proven solutions to decision-makers in Joal-Fadiouth
On World Ocean Day, coastal communities in Joal-Fadiouth joined forces with the AGIRE association, Greenpeace Africa, and the Department of Community Marine Protected Areas (DAMCP) to carry out a mangrove restoration activity and officially hand over the Global Ocean Justice Now report.
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Greenpeace Africa calls for fossil fuel phase-out and accelerated climate action on World Environment Day
On World Environment Day, Greenpeace Africa is calling on African governments to act on the climate emergency as extreme weather events continue to intensify across the continent, threatening lives, food systems, and the livelihoods of millions.
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Rural women are on the front line of the climate crisis. It is time the world acts like it.
This year's World Environment Day theme "From awareness to action" sounds urgent. But for the millions of rural women living alongside logging concessions, industrial agriculture and mining sites across Africa urgency is not a theme.