Together with our member networks, more than 300 African civil society organisations (CSOs), and African citizens, we sent an open letter to the African Union Commission Chairperson, H.E Moussa Faki. In the letter, we call on the African Union and African leaders to demand...
A free trade agreement could be an important milestone for the economic future for the continent, connecting Cairo to Cape Town and much in-between, and integrating Africa more completely into the global economy. The heads of state have laid out an ambitious agenda, bringing...
NAIROBI – Global environmental crime is worth up to $213 billion a year and helping to finance criminal and terrorist groups threatening security and sustainable development worldwide, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN and Interpol.
The report said Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab rebels...
Elephant poaching has continued unabated and this is threatening the tourism industry, one of Kenya’s biggest foreign exchange earners.
Only about 30,000 elephants exist in the country, down from 170,000 about 30 years ago. Although measures have been put in place to prevent this illegal...
Global Witness and CCFD-Terre Solidaire welcomed a commitment by EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht and Development Commissioner Piebalgs to make supply chains more transparent, a move that will help prevent natural resource-fuelled conflict. The two groups called on the Commission to swiftly roll...
