Building A Fossil Free Africa
We are standing up to stop the development of fossil fuels infrastructure within Africa through strengthened community resistance and international collaboration. How would you like to get involved?
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"We are not going to be left behind. We will continue touring across villages and cities enlightening communities about the impacts of coal."
— Khadija Shekuwe Save Lamu coordinator.
#AfrikaVuka Action – Accra, Ghana
#AfrikaVuka action – Nairobi, Kenya
News Coverage, Ghan
#RiseForClimate in Africa
#ThumaMinaDBSA: Cape Town action. December 2018.
#RiseForClimate concert in Nairobi, Kenya
we’re mobilising across Africa to #BreakFree from fossil fuels and push for a renewable
We don’t need another coal power plant in South Africa, we know that burning more coal will only lead to catastrophic climate impacts.
On April 27th, our partners in Sendou/Bargny reiterated their opposition to the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank (FMO), one of the financiers of the controversial coal power plant project in Senegal.
Young environmental activists continue to mount pressure on world leaders, policymakers, and other decision-makers to commit to environmental and development targets – and, more importantly, to honour those commitments.
On the 25th March 2022 Rise up Movement was not the only one holding placards, we were joined by over 600 students, teachers, parents and some community members. This sentiment was repeated in the thousands of Climate Strikes held around the world.
The RE4C Coalition coordinated by 350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (350 G-ROC) has petitioned the Ministry of Energy, calling on the ministry to show true climate leadership. The petition was submitted to the ministry on 31st March, 2022.
350 Ghana Reducing Our Carbon (350 G-ROC) engages its stakeholders to discuss the activities for their regional campaigns in 2022.
Madagascar, a low carbon emitter that is fighting to bring its population out of chronic underdevelopment, now finds itself a victim of climate change and the socio-economic crisis resulting from the pandemic.
On 10th February , Total Energies, the French oil giant, will present its results for 2021. Commentators point out that it is bound for record profits. But how dystopian is it to celebrate, when the company is on its way to pursue the world’s most scandalous, neocolonial investment of East African Crude Oil Pipeline ?
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