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"Is There No End to Big Oil's Evil?" Campaigners Condemn Industry Plan to Pour US Plastics Into Africa

Volunteers remove plastic bottles and other trash polluting Ruaka River on August 25, 2020. Increasing production of single-use plastics for beverage and other uses has become a nightmare in solid waste management in Kenya. (Photo: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oil Spill's Damage to Marine Area Around Mauritius 'Substantial' and Maybe 'Irreversible,' Expert Warns

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

A man scoops leaked oil from MV Wakashio, a vessel that is owned by a Japanese company but Panamanian-flagged, which ran aground near Blue Bay Marine Park off the coast of southeast Mauritius on August 8, 2020. (Photo: Jean Aurelio Prudence/L'Express Maurice/AFP via Getty Images)

"There are very few such marine areas with such rich biodiversity left on the planet. An oil spill like this will impact almost everything there."

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'We Are Expecting the Worst': Alarm Over Eco Crisis Grows Amid Fears Ship Leaking Oil Near Mauritius Could Break in Two

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Bystanders look at MV Wakashio bulk carrier that had run aground and is leaking oil near Blue Bay Marine Park in southeast Mauritius on August 6, 2020. (Photo: Dev Ramkhelawon/L'Express Maurice/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate campaigers charge that "this oil leak is not a twist of fate, but the...

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Rights Groups Raise Alarm Over Upcoming Supreme Court Case That Could Turn US Into 'Safe Haven' for Abusive Corporations

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Rather than work to stop child slavery, Nestle and Cargill want legal immunity...

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States Overwhelmed by Coronavirus Pandemic Face Another Health Hazard as Massive Dust Plume Heads Toward Southern US

Fisherman push their boat during low tide on oily mud in the river at Ogoniland's village of K-Dere, near Bodo, which is part of the Niger Delta region, on February 20, 2019. -Decades of oil spills has left the Ogoniland region in southern Nigeria an environmental disaster zone. (Photo: should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

'Shell Must Not Get Away With This': Niger Delta Still Waiting for Big Oil to Clean Up Devastating Pollution

A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)

Ilhan Omar Joins Global Call for Debt Relief as Coronavirus Threatens to Push Developing Nations 'Over the Edge'

Locust nymphs aggregated on the ground at a hatch site near Isiolo town in eastern Kenya on Feb. 25, 2020

'Unprecedented Threat' for East Africa as Larger Second Wave of Locust Crisis Arrives Amid Pandemic

Locusts swarm from ground vegetation

'A Scourge of Biblical Proportions': UN Leaders Sound Alarm on East Africa Locust Crisis in Call for Global Response

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg

For Second Year Straight, Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Fridays for Future press conference

Fridays for Future Movement Urges Greater Global Focus on Africa's Climate Champions

Largely Driven by Climate Crisis, 9 Out of 10 Least-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2019 Were in Africa

locust swarm

Climate-Crisis Fueled Locust Swarms Pose 'Unprecedented Threat to Food Security and Livelihoods' in East Africa

A file photo dated May 25, 2018 shows Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during his meeting with President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame (not seen) at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019. (Photo by Minasse Wondimu Hailu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize

Tipping Point: UN Biodiversity Chief Warns Burning of Amazon Could Lead to 'Cascading Collapse of Natural Systems'

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The Peace Mothers

From Fambul Tok - family talk - a short film on the efforts of the extraordinary women of Sierre Leone to heal their communities, one village at a time, after a devastating decade-long civil war. A happy and peaceful Mother's Day.

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Center for International Environmental Law

Investigation Details Industry’s Attempts to Flood Africa with Plastic Pollution

350.org

Facing downturn in U.S. and global markets, Big Oil targets Africa to dump plastics

Amnesty International

Somalia: Zero accountability as civilian deaths mount from US air strikes

Global Justice Now

Reaction to UK-Africa Investment Summit

Amnesty International

U.S. Military Shows Appalling Disregard For Civilians Killed in Somalia Air Strike

Greenpeace

Response to Devastation of Cyclone Idai

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Lisa Mullenneaux

The Raft of the Medusa

Robert C. Koehler

Is There Life Beyond Plastic?

Stephen Kinzer

Obama’s ‘Biggest Mistake’ Is Still Wreaking Havoc

Juan Cole

Chadwick Boseman’s Wakanda: Afro-Futurism Is in the Present

Timothy A. Wise

Replacing Hunger with Malnutrition

Stephen Zunes

Sudan's Democratic Revolution is Being Undermined by the United States

Million Belay

Africa Says, "I Can't Breathe": An African Civil Society Perspective on Systemic Racism

Pauline Muchina, Kennedy Akolo

Leaders Must Act to Protect Refugees and Internally Displaced People in Africa

Nick Dearden

Don't Delay Developing World Debt—Cancel It

Aminata Touré

Africa Is Relying on its Own Forces in Fight Against Covid-19