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  • Mama Sara Obama at Solar Panels Installation in Kenya. © Richard  Dobson

    Greenpeace’s Project Sunshine delivers in Diepsloot

    Johannesburg, 8 September – After a successful crowdfunding campaign that exceeded the R100 000 target, Greenpeace Africa and the Philile Foundation’s commitment to install solar streetlights in Diepsloot will be met tomorrow when the solar streetlights are officially handed over to the community.

    Lerato Ngakane 2 min read
  • Ecological Farmer in Kenya. © Cheryl-Samantha Owen

    Greenpeace calls on AGRF to rethink its Approach to Agriculture in Africa

    Nairobi, 6th September 2017 - The seventh edition of the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) 2017 under the theme ‘Accelerating Africa’s Path to Prosperity: Growing Inclusive Economies and Jobs through Agriculture’ is hosted in Abidjan from September 4-8 2017. The ambition of the forum has been to accelerate the progress on agriculture’s contribution to economic…

    Greenpeace Africa 1 min read
  • Can the world come to its senses on nuclear weapons?

    Looking back, one of the key moments that was to define both my professional and personal path was the moment I stepped onto the small atoll of Rongelap, in the…

    Bunny McDiarmid 5 min read
  • Let the installation begin!

    It’s been almost two months since we surpassed our crowdfunding target for the solar streetlights that will be installed at the Diepsloot Philile Creche. A lot has been happening in those two months, including the delivery of the solar streetlights by our supplier, Schneider Electric.

    Lerato Tsotetsi 3 min read
  • Local fishermen fishing from traditional canoes, in Sierra Leone waters. © Kate Davison

    Greenpeace Africa in total solidarity with the People of Sierra Leone

    Dakar, 17 August 2017- Following the disaster that struck Freetown on 13 August 2017 and killed at least 312 people and thousands of homeless people, Greenpeace Africa expressed its compassion and solidarity to the people of Sierra Leone.

    Greenpeace Africa 1 min read
  • Our land should unite, not antagonize us!

    On August 5, 2017, four days before the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, I was deeply troubled by news of deadly confrontations between Bantu[1] and indigenous (Pygmy) communities in Tanganyika province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

    Alain Binibangili 3 min read
  • Celebrating Women’s Day with Jenn Coles

    "One small act of kindness has a ripple effect as it reverberates in individual’s lives, in communities and ultimately in transforming the very fabric of our beloved country."

    Lerato Ngakane 3 min read
  • 7 reasons why we should create hope in Diepsloot’s despair

    There were over two thousand violent crimes in Diepsloot, a disadvantaged community in the North of Johannesburg in 2016, the detailed crime statistics is available.

    Mbong Akiy Fokwa Tsafack 5 min read
  • Sodefor Concession in Congo. © Kate Davison

    Norway and France threaten DRC’s forests

    An area of rainforest the size of Italy is at risk of being cut down by loggers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), if the Norwegian government approves a French Development Agency (AFD) proposal to expand industrial logging there starting 2018.

    Greenpeace Africa
  • Sodefor Concession in Congo. © Kate Davison

    Norwegian and French governments threatens world’s second largest tropical rainforest

    12 July 2017 - An area of rainforest the size of Italy is at risk of being cut down by loggers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), if a Norwegian-funded project to expand industrial logging in the country is approved in Kinshasa next Tuesday (July 18).

    Greenpeace Africa 4 min read