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Save the Wild Coast: Court adjourned, judgement reserved
31 May 2022, Gqeberha, South Africa: On the second and final day of the legal challenge against Shell and Impact Africa, the Gqeberha High Court heard respondents’ arguments following yesterday’s…
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Applicants’ arguments heard to save the Wild Coast
30 May 2022, Gqeberha, South Africa: Demonstrators led by affected coastal communities gathered outside the Gqeberha High Court today for the start of the three-day legal challenge against Shell and Impact Africa’s seismic surveys off the Wild Coast, and the unlawful decision in 2014, by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy to grant Shell…
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#ToHellWithShell: A timeline of the fight and victory to stop Shell from destroying the Wild Coast
Last year, thousands of South Africans across the country sent a clear message to Shell and the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy: our oceans are not for sale! After joining forces with our partners in 2021 to get Shell out of the Wild Coast, we are preparing to see them in court again, where…
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Greenpeace Africa and Natural Justice join challenge to Shell’s seismic testing off the Wild Coast
26 May 2022, Gqeberha, South Africa: Natural Justice and Greenpeace Africa have applied to join the court case, brought on behalf of Wild Coast communities and small-scale fishers represented by…
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Greenpeace Africa calls on the government of Sénégal to make public the results of the investigation into a suspicious yellowish slick on the Petite Côte.
Côte, Sénégal, Dr Aliou Ba, Head of Greenpeace Africa’s Oceans Campaign, has requested that the government of Sénégal make the results of its investigation public as soon as possible.
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Anti corruption report in Senegal: Greenpeace Africa urges Senegal to adopt transparency in the fishing sector
“The shortcomings raised by OFNAC confirm the concerns of Greenpeace Africa, which for years has been asking for an audit and the publication of the list of vessels authorized in Senegal,” says Dr Ba. “We must not allow this important sector to operate under such nebulous practices. This is why Greenpeace Africa is once again…
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#ToHellWithShell – Desiree Laverne
I recall that nauseating feeling when we discovered that Shell was about to start Seismic blasting on the Wild Coast… panic soon replaced nausea.. OMW, we have to stop this disaster from unfolding on our pristine coastline..
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FSO SAFER OIL TANKER OFF YEMEN
I am writing to you with concern over the threat posed by the tanker the FSO Safer, moored off the coast of Yemen with an estimated 1.1 million barrels of oil on board (140,000 tonnes). With close proximity to Africa’s eastern shorelines, this poses an imminent threat to the Red Sea, the biodiversity and the…
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Empty pledges to plant more trees will not save the Congo Basin
UN General Assembly has proclaimed 21 March as the International Day of Forests. It serves as an opportunity for both ordinary people and governments to profess their love for forests and their commitment to their protection.