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  • Fishermen Repairing Nets in DRC. © Jan-Joseph Stok

    Donors dish out millions while the DRC government ups the moratorium breaches

    Kinshasa, 1st February 2017: Greenpeace Africa has today revealed further breaches to the 2002 moratorium on industrial logging titles by top Congolese government officials. Barely a month after these breaches the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) paid out $40 million to safeguard the DRC forest.

    Greenpeace Africa 1 min read
  • #BridgesNotWalls: It’s Time for Solidarity, Love and Hope

    This Friday, January 20th, Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, after a year when the politics of hate, fear and division blossomed around the world.

    Greenpeace Africa 2 min read
  • It’s 6 goals to green o’clock!

    This very smart 4 year old inspired me to think differently of fulfilling the sometimes scary “new year’s resolutions”. With a new year, most of us feel inspired and empowered to change, stop and/or start new habits, what if we did this differently? What if we set new goals and then came up with sub-goals…

    Lerato Tsotetsi 3 min read
  • How does ‘organic food’ affect your body?

    Is the food you and your family eat everyday really free from synthetic chemical pesticides? Join us. Challenge yourself to switch to organic food  and help promote pesticide-free food for families everywhere. Together, we can fix the broken food system!

    Kenji Ishihara 3 min read
  • Chimpanzee at Mefou Primate Sanctuary in Cameroon. © John Novis

    SGSOC’S Social Investments

    In 2009, Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC) signed an agreement to develop an oil palm plantation in Cameroon’s Southwest region. At the time, the project was known as Herakles Farms – the name of the US investor which withdrew in 2015.

    Greenpeace Africa
  • Waste no time – start volunteering!

    Thato is a Greenpeace volunteer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She’d like you to do the same, to ACT for a cause close to your heart and here’s why!

    Thato Mokale 2 min read
  • Action at Kusile Power Station in Africa. © Benedicte  Kurzen

    Greenpeace condemns appointment of Matshela Koko as Acting Eskom CEO

    01 December 2016, Johannesburg: Reacting to the news that Matshela Koko has been appointed by Minister Lynne Brown as Eskom’s Acting CEO with effect from today, Melita Steele, Senior Climate and Energy Campaign Manager for Greenpeace Africa has said:

    Greenpeace Africa 1 min read
  • Black Anniversary to SGSOC!

    Sithe Global Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC), your provisional grant began on the 25th of November 2013 and today November 25 marks the end of your provisional grant. Thus, we the chiefs of Ikoti and Babensi II would like to present our anniversary wishes: May the end of this provisional grant be your END! This would be…

    Chief Ejeba Ewane Joseph & Chief Ekue John Epimba 2 min read
  • Civil society rejects IRP base case scenario unreservedly

    Greenpeace Africa 4 min read
  • Acoustic Research Conducted near the US Atlantic Coast. © Tim Aubry

    New trade protections for sharks – but are they enough?

    Like it or not, around the world many species of animals are seen as tradeable commodities – for things like food, fur, fashion or medicine. Of course we know that historically hunting animals for commercial gain has often been really bad news for the animals concerned. Just stop and think about some of the most…

    Willie Mackenzie 4 min read