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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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Policy Recommendations: Strengthening Refill and Reuse Systems in Kenya’s Environmental Framework
Multiple policy, legal and regulatory frameworks remain largely focused on recycling and post-consumer waste management, rather than preventing waste through systemic refill and reuse solutions. While reuse is mentioned conceptually in EPR regulations, they are not yet supported through specific mandates, standards, or incentives. This creates a critical policy gap especially as Kenya grapples with…
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Kenya’s nuclear plant in Siaya: how asking questions became “terrorism”
On the shores of Lake Victoria in western Kenya, communities opposing a KSh 500 billion nuclear plant are being arrested, shot at, and branded terrorists. Here is what is actually happening, and who these people really are.
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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.
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Minerals, not mercy: what Kenya must learn before signing away its resources
When President Ruto stood on the sidelines of the G7 summit and announced Kenya was close to a minerals deal with the United States, the language used was the language of partnership: investment, not aid. In country processing, not extraction. A new chapter, not a repeat of the old one.
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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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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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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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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.