by Oilwatch Africa | Jan 23, 2025 | Africa, News, Press Release
Concerned civil society organisations in the Niger Delta met at the Port Harcourt office of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria to deliberate on the recent invitation by the office of the National Security Adviser to the President, Mr...
by Oilwatch Africa | Sep 4, 2024 | Africa, Global, News, Press Release
Oilwatch International and Oilwatch Africa held a Conference on Monday 19th August 2024 in Durban, South Africa to interrogate the theme Beyond Colonialism and Extractivism: Energy Democracy and the Imperatives of a Just Transition. The...
by Oilwatch Africa | May 21, 2024 | Africa, Press Release
In 1993, Shell was forced out of Ogoniland where it had extracted crude oil non-stop for decades with unbelievable ecological consequences. The Ogoni people, mobilized under the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP), had issued a set of demands...
by Oilwatch Africa | Feb 22, 2024 | Africa, News, Press Release
Kebetkache Women Development & Resource Centre and their allied community-based women organizations express profound dismay at the announcement by Shell to sell off their on-shore assets to investors without conducting necessary consultations with communities that...
by Oilwatch Africa | Nov 22, 2023 | Press Release
Nigeria has a coastline of about 853km with Lagos, Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River as littoral states. 28 out of the 36 states in Nigeria are navigable by the connecting inland waters that stretches about 10,000km – encircling whole...
by Oilwatch Africa | Oct 12, 2023 | Africa, News, Press Release
We, the 150 delegates to the West and Central African Women’s Climate Assembly, held over 24-28 September 2023 in Lagos, Nigeria, represent communities and organisations from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo,...
