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Greenpeace Africa commends Ramaphosa’s commitments to enabling electricity self-generation
15 January 2020, Johannesburg — President Cyril Ramaphosa made commitments on Tuesday that government will remove the red tape inhibiting businesses and households from self-generation of electricity. In response, Melita…
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Oscar winners, Wallace and Gromit creators, and Greenpeace launch heartbreaking new animated film about the plight of the oceans
London, 15 January 2020 – Oscar-winners Olivia Colman and Dame Helen Mirren, along with Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey and Stranger Things’ David Harbour, star in a new animation that…
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Locust invasion requires ecological solution: Greenpeace Africa
Nairobi, 7 January 2019 – Responding to the news of locust invasions in Kenya , Greenpeace Africa’s Food for Life Campaigner Claire Nasike has said: “It is commendable that the…
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The Garden of Eden of Indigenous People is turning into an Industrial Exploitation Hell / Sylvie Djacbou Deugoue and Lamfu Yengong Fabrice
Access to land and its resources is crucial throughout rural Africa. Since the colonial era, local elites and foreign corporations have been taking control over large areas of agricultural lands.…
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Fighting for climate action but barred from COP25: what did these Congolese forest defenders want to say in Madrid?
Kinshasa, 10 December 2019 Greenpeace Africa and a coalition of eight NGOs from the two Congos are calling for the immediate cancellation of all industrial activities in peatlands, including oil…
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The climate crisis is an ocean crisis – Greenpeace report calls for urgent global political response to ocean breakdown
Madrid, 4 December 2019 – The impact of the climate crisis on our oceans has far-reaching implications for biodiversity and humankind, requiring an urgent global political response in the next…
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Koeberg nearing capacity: government playing with fire
26 November 2019, Johannesburg — Responding to media reports that Koeberg’s onsite spent fuel storage capacity is 90% full and will be completely full by April 2020, Melita Steele, Greenpeace…
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“We were told not to go into the forest anymore” – Greenpeace investigation exposes human rights violations by Halcyon Agri
Yaoundé, 25 November 2019 – Following last year’s Ruinous Rubber report, which exposed the most devastating new forest clearance for industrial agriculture in the Congo Basin, Greenpeace Africa released today…
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World Fisheries Day or Worst Fisheries Day?
As the world is celebrating the “World Fisheries Day” today, it is the right time to further reflect on the state of the fisheries which deserve mourning rather than celebration…
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Heartfelt outcry from female fish processors on the morning of World Fisheries Day
“What are we going to do if we can’t process fish? How will we take care of our families and our children’s education?”