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Senegal’s coastal communities unite as extractive industries close in.
From Saint-Louis to Djiffer, communities are joining forces to defend fishing, farming and local livelihoods with a shared platform for action.
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Africa must not trade its critical minerals for another debt crisis
Civil society urges governments to disclose resource-backed deals, strengthen mining taxation and protect communities under the Common African Position on Debt.
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Kenya urged to plug plastic ban loopholes as campaigners handover Refill and Reuse Policy recommendations
Environmental groups are calling on the Kenyan government to seal smuggling loopholes that allow illegal single-use plastics to flood local markets. The demand was made in Nairobi during the handover of policy recommendations to key decision-makers on the anniversary of Kenya’s landmark plastic bag ban.
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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.