Anabela Lemos Receives Mozambique’s National Environmental Prize
Greengrants congratulates Anabela Lemos, Southern Africa Advisory Board member and winner of Mozambique’s first National Environmental Prize.
Mozambique: Prize Established to Honor and Reward Exceptional Investigative Journalists
Mozambique has a history of corruption and injustice, but recently, Mozambicans have begun to demand change. In 1994, Mozambique held its first free elections after years of colonial rule and civil war. A government previously controlled by a powerful elite is yielding to influence from citizens. Livaningo, Mozambique’s first environmental NGO, has been important both […]
Lesotho: River Voices
Note: Transformation Resource Centre (TRC), a Lesotho community development and human rights group, is working to bring moderation to the controversy over one of the largest dam building projects in the world. It’s getting help from an unlikely and very distant source: India’s famed Narmada Bachao Andolan. The six-dam Lesotho Highlands Water Project, designed […]
Ghana: Groups Work to Prevent Mining in Ghana’s Forest Reserves
A controversial government decision to grant permits for gold mining in Ghana’s dwindling forest reserves threatens the survival of the forest and of the people who depend on the forest to meet their basic needs. Two Greengrants grantees are on the front lines of this battle: Wassa Association of Communities Against Mining (WACAM) and the […]
Uganda: Grassroots Group Promotes Citizen Involvement in Dam Decision
by Kielly Dunn with contributions from Lori Pottinger, International Rivers Network Bujagali Falls Dam is a 200-megawatt hydropower project proposed for Bujagali Falls on the Nile River near Jinja, Uganda. Although the original sponsor, a United States-based energy company named AES, has backed out, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation and the African Development Bank […]