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Bonn climate talks end with key questions unresolved ahead of COP31
Slow progress on climate finance, just transition, and fossil fuel phase-out highlights the growing disconnect between political negotiations and the urgency of the climate crisis.
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Welcome to the Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya. Please ignore the sewage.
The 11th Our Ocean Conference - the first ever held on African soil - brings together governments, corporations, scientists and civil society organisations under the sweeping banner of "Our Ocean, Our Heritage, Our Future."The venue is Mombasa. A city drowning. Not metaphorically. Literally.
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2026 FIFA World Cup: Let the DRC’s Leopards inspire the protection of Congo Basin wildlife
As the Democratic Republic of Congo proudly celebrates the participation of the Leopards in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, 52 years after their historic appearance, Greenpeace Africa is calling on Congolese citizens and Africans across the continent to extend their support beyond the football pitch.
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Meru’s elephants have a maternity area. Kenya is building an airstrip right next to it.
Every dry season, the elephants of Mt. Kenya come home to Imenti. It is where they return when water grows scarce elsewhere.
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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.