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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.
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They came to grieve Nairobi National Park. They left in police trucks.
Kenyans gathered to mourn. Not a person, but a place. They came for a funeral procession for Nairobi National Park, the world's only national park inside a capital city, gazetted in 1946 and now facing yet another bite out of its protected land.
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The destruction of Imenti Forest is the latest price Kenya is paying for development it never needed
In September 2025, Greenpeace Africa sounded the alarm. Reports had emerged that 50 acres of Imenti Forest in Meru County were being considered for a State Lodge, a golf course and an airstrip - a directive said to have come from the President himself during a meeting with Meru leaders. We called for an immediate…
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The rising lakes of Kenya’s Rift Valley are swallowing communities whole
This is not a flood story. Floods recede. This is something else entirely: a lake that has been swallowing the Rift Valley for over a decade, and the communities stranded at its edge, waiting for help that has not come.
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Siaya residents reject Kenya’s nuclear plant at public forum, and the government must listen
When hundreds of residents in Sakwa, Bondo Sub-County, stormed what was supposed to be a government public participation forum this week, they were not protesting a rumour. They were rejecting a decision that had already been made for them, without them.
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They couldn’t beat us in court. Now they want to change the law.
In August 2025, a Kenyan court handed down a landmark ruling. The government had sought to excise 51.64 hectares of Karura Forest to expand Kiambu Road. The Environment and Land Court said no, allowing only 0.1233 hectares, a fraction of what was requested. It was a victory for every Kenyan who has ever walked under…
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African Civil Society Urges Africa–France Summit to Prioritize Economic Transformation Over Market Access
Ahead of the Africa Forward Summit taking place in Nairobi on 11 and 12 May, Greenpeace Africa and civil society partners, Power Shift Africa and Christian Aid, are calling on African and French leaders to use the meeting to secure concrete commitments that advance Africa’s economic transformation, climate resilience and financial sovereignty.