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Open Letter to NEMA on Lake Victoria Pollution
Our lakes are dying and so are the fish. On the shores of Lake Victoria, piles of dead fish have been washed up
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Op-Ed | Empty Words Will Not Solve Perennial Lake Pollution, NEMA Needs to Take Action
Kenya’s water bodies have for a long time been a sink to excessive nutrients and untreated effluent from industrial and municipal activities. The waste disposed of in the water bodies has been causing a lot of challenges.
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NEMA Needs To Act Urgently To Save Kenya’s Lakes: Greenpeace Africa
Nairobi, 22 March 2021 – Following the recent calamity of poisoned fish in Lake Nakuru and Lake Victoria, Greenpeace Africa is calling on NEMA to commit to stopping pollution in…
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Greenpeace Report: Intensifying weather events threaten the most vulnerable in Africa
A Greenpeace scientific report released today reveals that extreme weather events such as heatwaves, floods and intense rain are increasing in intensity, frequency and severity across many parts of Africa
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Greenpeace Volunteers Demand an End to the Ecocide of the uMbilo River
Volunteers from Greenpeace Africa are working with the uMbilo River Watch community group and concerned citizens to expose the severity of the pollution in uMbilo River
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Let’s Save a Little Water for Everyone
Experts say keeping good hygiene would reduce the risk of transmitting and contracting the COVID-19. Indeed clean water is our first line of defense during this time of turbulence. Access…
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Water is central to our humanity – Greenpeace Africa
22 March 2020, Johannesburg — This World Water Day, the nexus of coal, water security, and air pollution is at the centre of the discussion for Greenpeace Africa. South Africa’s…
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Climate change takes its toll on Mozambique
Johannesburg, 25 April 2019 — Barely a month after Tropical Cyclone Idai’s arrival, Tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall on Mozambique on 25 April 2019. In response, Njeri Kabeberi, Executive Director…
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Tropical Cyclone Idai and the African Spirit
I phone my sister in Beira. Each time I call, the ringing seems to continue for longer and longer. Each time she picks up, the relief is the same. I…
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A Nation in (Water) Crisis
South African volunteer Shannon Van Vuuren recounts how life changed in Cape Town during one of the country’s worst droughts A woman residing in a small flat, working five days…