Press Centre
This section is intended for journalists and media professionals. Here you will find our latest Press Releases which we distribute to the media.
Greenpeace Africa Press Desk: [email protected]

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Cameroon: Maroua floods exposes the growing cost of climate inaction
The devastating floods that struck Maroua last weekend are the latest in a pattern of climate-driven disasters spreading across Cameroon. Greenpeace Africa stands in solidarity with the people of Maroua and warns that flooding of this scale is no longer an isolated event but a national emergency that is becoming more frequent, more severe and…
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Exposed: Oil blocks and mining concessions cover almost 100% of world’s largest green corridor
Greenpeace Africa today launched The Kivu–Kinshasa Green Corridor: Warning Signs and the Urgent Need for a Moratorium on New Extractive Projects, exposing major contradictions between the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) ambitious conservation agenda and the continued expansion of oil, gas and mining activities within one of world’s largest forest reserves.
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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.