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Africa
Friends of the Earth Africa brings together groups throughout Africa to participate in international programs and develop initiatives to strengthen campaigning in the region.
FoEI member groups in Africa are particularly active in community-based forest management; extractive industries and African peoples’ need for access to clean renewable energy; food sovereignty and the struggle against GMOs; and the dangers of agrofuels expansion in the region.
News from the region
A journey through the oil spills of Ogoniland
Over two decades after Shell was first called out for it’s destruction of the Niger Delta, oil still contaminates the ...
17 May, 2019
Public services alternative
Since 2014, the Our Water Our Rights Campaign has mobilized communities and people’s groups to resist water privatizat...
17 April, 2018
Transforming our economy: Scaling up solutions
We live in a world facing many destructive and entwined crises - including growing inequality, climate change, poverty, ...
31 January, 2018
Corporate Impunity: Strategies of struggle in Africa
2016 was an important year in the African continent’s struggle against corporate impunity, with the first session of t...
04 January, 2018
People power at its best: Friends of the Earth groups around the world mobilize to demand climate justice and end to dirty energy
In an explosion of spectacular mobilizations and a frenzy of social media between 13-15 October 2017, Friends of the Ear...
17 October, 2017
People Power in action: Uniting against oil exploration in Togo
In 2012 oil was discovered off the coast of Doevi Kope, Togo. If the oil is drilled it will affect not only Doevi Kope b...
09 October, 2017
Why we need to stand as one globally to combat climate change.
Thousands Mobilize for Climate Justice 2017 has seen a succession of devastating hurricanes, floodi...
04 October, 2017
Building a Youth Movement for Social and Environmental Justice
In March 2017 Groundwork/Friends of the Earth South Africa hosted a cross-regional learning meeting as part of the Frien...
04 May, 2017
Youth from Africa and Europe unite to address climate justice
Iva from Young Friends of the Earth Croatia reflects on her experiences in Durban, at the first African meeting as part ...
04 May, 2017
Binding Treaty to stop corporate abuse
Why do we need a legally binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights? Quite simply to stop corporate c...
26 October, 2016
