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#FundOurFutures: Why programmes like the Basic Education Employment Initiative are worth funding, both for the future of young people and for learners.
Youth Capital, in partnership with Greenpeace Africa have launched the #FundOurFutures campaign this Mandela Day, urging the Ministers of Finance and Basic Education to support funding the Presidential Employment Stimulus (PES).
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Nature is calling South Africa. Again.
It is that time of the year where KwaZulu – Natal (a province in South Africa) experiences a new form of mayhem for the third time in a row.
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Help stop load shedding to stop GBV
Regardless of all the doom and gloom in the world, there always seem to be people that push through it. People who are unfailingly optimistic and kind. Some call them dreamers, and I love it when those dreamers are my friends.
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Threats to biodiversity: biodiversity loss & climate change.
We look into the threats to biodiversity in South Africa, their prevalence across protected areas, and how climate change exacerbates the ongoing impacts of biodiversity loss.
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Dr Oulie Keita appointed as Greenpeace Africa Executive Director
Mali-born development expert Dr. Oulie Keita has been appointed as Greenpeace Africa’s Substantive Executive Director after an intensive and competitive recruitment process to usher the organisation into a new wave of environmental justice.
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Planet One, a training space dedicated to youths opens its doors in Yaoundé
About fouty young people from various backgrounds were mobilized on Friday, February 17 in the premises of Planet One in Yaounde, as part of the official launch of this initiative in Cameroon.
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COP27 Loss and Damage Finance Fund a down payment on climate justice.
Greenpeace welcomes the COP27 agreement to establish a Loss and Damage Finance Fund as an important foundation in building towards climate justice. But, warns against politics as usual.
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eThekwini contaminated water; We are swimming in faeces while dodging E. coli.
Rivers polluted by sewers are nothing new to Durbanites. This problem has existed for years. In 2020, a local group of Greenpeace Africa in Durban submitted a petition to the…
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Should climate funding be a deal breaker for climate action in Africa?
As the world looks yet again with hope and anticipation to the current round of talks in the global climate conference in Egypt (COP27), it is clear that one of the most critical ways to address the climate quagmire is to make polluters pay.
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The price of oil extraction in DR Congo is revealed – NGOs take Perenco to court over 167 pollution cases.
The harmful operations of Perenco S.A, France's second largest oil company and the only oil operator in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were in the spotlight of a report by Investigate Europe, Disclose and EIT (Environmental Investigative Forum). The company is now summoned to the French court this Wednesday, November 9, by two associations…