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As Cameroon celebrates its WAFCON victory, communities push for victory for Ebo Forest too.
As Cameroon celebrates the triumph of the Indomitable Lionesses on the African stage, attention must also turn to another national heritage at a crossroads: Ebo Forest and the need to secure the customary land rights of the Banen communities, who have claimed these ancestral territories for generations.
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Landmark judgment in South Africa permanently halts Shell’s Wild Coast oil and gas exploration
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has delivered a decisive victory for Wild Coast communities, ocean justice and environmental rights, by setting aside the exploration right that would have allowed Shell and Impact Africa to search for oil and gas off the Wild Coast, and closing any renewal route.
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As the Indomitable Lionesses of Cameroon roar with pride, Greenpeace Africa calls for a second chance for Ebo forest
As Cameroon celebrates the extraordinary journey of the Indomitable Lionesses, who transformed an unexpected opportunity into a place in the final of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) and qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, Greenpeace Africa believes their remarkable story carries a powerful lesson beyond football.
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Greenpeace Africa convenes national stakeholders to strengthen DRC’s legal framework on plastic pollution
Greenpeace Africa, in collaboration with the Office of the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development and New Climate Economy, is convening a two-day multi-stakeholder consultation workshop to advance policy reforms aimed at tackling the growing plastic packaging pollution crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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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.
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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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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.