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Kenya’s Fourth Plastic Ban Anniversary
As Kenya marks the fourth anniversary of the ambitious plastics ban much has been achieved including limiting the pollution by carrier bags and the president's directive in protected areas but, still more needs to be done.
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Bravery and courage – an activists story
Feeling helpless hanging above Jozi, you watch strips of the banner fall to the ground but then you hear “AMANDLA!” and you see your team member with their fist raised in the air and you say “AWETHU!” and remember that you are not alone,
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Three takeaways as Kenya marks 4 years since the ban on single-use plastic bags.
It is exactly four years since Kenya banned the use of single-use plastic carrier bags. It is important that as we mark the 4th anniversary.
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My Endless Adventure with Greenpeace Africa
Back in the year 1995 when I was in fifth grade, I heard the name of Greenpeace’s vessel “The Rainbow Warrior” on international radio. Since then, I wish I could join that amazing organisation.
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My Exhilarating Decade of Thrills
My love affair with GPAF started in January 2011 when I joined the organisation as a full-time employee, though I had flirted with the organisation as a volunteer for a few months before. I was freshly out of the newsroom in Cameroon, when I traveled to South Africa and took up my Masters studies.
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Greenpeace Africa Volunteers Demand Accountability From United Phosphorus Limited
Greenpeace Africa volunteers have launched a petition demanding accountability from United Phosphorus Limited following the July explosion of their chemical warehouse in Cornubia in Durban.
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The Greenpeace Africa Office Story
Since the late 1990’s, Greenpeace has been actively campaigning on illegal logging in the Congo Basin Forest in Central Africa. Greenpeace opened its doors in the African continent by opening…
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Empowering women to empower the world of sustainability
Earth, our source of life, is now becoming the barren, toxic wasteland we have always feared with only 23% of our wildlife remaining.
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Greenpeace Africa to EU Ambassador: address forest destruction in Cameroon
Dear Ambassador, We are writing to urge the European Commission to swiftly present ambitious and effective legislation on forest and ecosystem risk commodities, in order to end the EU’s complicity in the destruction of forests and other ecosystems and in the related abuses of human rights and Indigenous People’s rights.
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License to kill in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Greenpeace Africa joins the outcry against the legalization of killing protected species
4 August 2021, Kinshasa – Greenpeace Africa supports the call of over a hundred local NGOs as well as the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) to immediately cancel a…