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Meat Laced with Lethal Chemicals Exposes a Broken Food System16 July 2019Nairobi, 16 July 2019: In response to the expose by NTV revealing that meat sold in local markets is laced with dangerous chemicals to make it look fresh for longer,…
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The airpocalypse in the room: Greenpeace Africa responds to budget vote speeches12 July 201911 July 2019, Johannesburg — Today, Minister Gwede Mantashe delivered his budget vote speech for the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy and Minister Barbara Creecy delivered her budget vote…
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DRC: Greenpeace Africa welcomes the criminal conviction of three wildlife traffickers9 July 2019Kinshasa, 9 July 2019 – Following the conviction of three wildlife traffickers to a term of five months imprisonment and the payment of damages of $ 5,000 by the Tribunal…
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Illegal logging concessions should be urgently cancelled – Greenpeace Africa5 July 2019Kinshasa, 05 July 2019 – Civil society organisations who are signatories of the CSO declaration on the allocation of new forest concessions by the State have made recommendations [1] to…
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Nestlé swaps throwaway plastic for throwaway paper on snack bars3 July 2019Vevey, Switzerland – Nestlé announced today it has switched from plastic packaging to paper wrappers for its YES! snack bars, and that it plans to roll this out for other…
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New Greenpeace report warns of ‘irreversible harm’ from deep sea mining3 July 2019The world’s oceans could face severe and irreversible harm unless tighter environmental safeguards are put in place to protect them from the risks of deep sea mining, warns a new…
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The world’s largest complex of tropical peatlands in the World under threat due to industrial activities28 June 2019Kinshasa, June 28, 2019 – Greenpeace Africa calls on the governments of the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo to ban all industrial activity in the world’s…
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Not in Our Country! Kenyans Denounce Plans to Build East Africa’s First Coal- Fired Power Plant28 June 2019Nairobi, 28 June 2019 – Greenpeace Africa and members of the deCOALonize coalition have today met with Chinese Ambassador Wu Peng. This was a follow up on the letter delivered…
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Greenpeace expedition to the Congo Basin forest: “Industrial activity in the peatlands can detonate a 30,6 billion tonnes carbon bomb”28 June 2019Kinshasa, June 26, 2019 – Greenpeace Africa and scientists from the Universities of Leeds (UK) and Kisangani (DRC) have concluded an expedition to the peatlands of the Congo Basin forest…
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Greenpeace: moratorium can help stop senseless whale deaths28 June 201928 June 2019, Johannesburg: Responding to news that a second humpback whale has died off the coast of False Bay from being entangled in octopus fishery nets, Melita Steele, Senior…