Africa: COP28 Oil Company to Spend $1 Bn a Month On Fossil Fuels This Decade Despite 'Green' Claims

The oil and gas firm ran by the president of COP28 climate talks is set to spend more than $1 billion every month this decade on fossil fuels, despite its claims to be a leading… Read more »

Africa: COP28 President's 'Hypocritical' Oil Firm Failing to Acknowledge Full Extent of Their Carbon Footprint

The fossil fuel giant run by the president of the forthcoming UN climate summit - Sultan Al-Jaber - this week reported only a fraction of its carbon pollution, despite him saying… Read more »

Africa: UK Government's Announcement On New Oil & Gas Licences Is 'Morally Depraved' #AfricaClimateCrisis

Statement on UK Government's announcement to award new North Sea oil and gas licences Read more »

Africa: TotalEnergies Announces €4.5 Billion Quarterly Profits While Remaining a Top Buyer of Russian Liquified Gas #AfricaClimateCrisis

27 July 2023, London - French energy giant TotalEnergies today announced €10.4 billion ($11.5 billion) in profits so far in 2023, and the company continues its trade buying… Read more »

Africa: As Shell Reports £3.9 Billion in Q2 Profits Amidst Deadly Heatwave, Its Oil and Gas Investment Is Forecast to Increase By 10% #AfricaClimateCrisis

London, July 27th 2023 - As Shell reports profits of £11.6 billion ($14.8 billion) for the first half of this year, new analysis shows that the company is set to increase its… Read more »

Africa: UK Government Quashes New Law That Would Shut Off Money Pipeline to Deforesting Businesses #AfricaClimateCrisis

27th June 2023, London - The UK government has rejected a key amendment to the Financial Services and Markets Bill that would force financial institutions to carry out mandatory… Read more »

Africa: Appointment of Oil Company CEO As Climate Talks President a 'Blatant Conflict of Interest' #AfricaClimateCrisis

12th January 2023, London - News today that Sultan Al Jaber, CEO of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, has been appointed president of this year's UN climate talks, is a harsh blow to… Read more »

Africa: Our Verdict On COP27 - a Polluters' Parade

Despite some progress on loss and damage, world leaders at the UN climate summit fail (once again) to agree to phase out fossil fuels. Read more »

Kenya: Use "Break Glass" Measures and Suspend Ads to Protect Kenyan Election, Rights Groups and Frances Haugen Demand

Global Witness, Foxglove and the "Facebook Files" whistleblower Frances Haugen are calling on Facebook to deploy emergency measures in Kenya to protect the integrity of the… Read more »

Kenya: Facebook Approves Ads Calling for Ethnic Violence in the Lead Up to a Tense Kenyan Election

A new investigation by Global Witness and legal non-profit Foxglove shows that Facebook failed to detect inflammatory and violent hate speech ads in the two official languages of… Read more »

Kenya: Facebook Unable to Detect Hate Speech Weeks Away From Tight Kenyan Election

Despite the risk of violence around the upcoming Kenyan election, our new investigation conducted in partnership with legal non-profit Foxglove finds Facebook appallingly failed to… Read more »

Egypt: Statements On COP27 Imply Restricting Activism #AfricaClimateActivism

Uphold Rights to Free Expression at Environmental Summit Read more »

Africa: How European Rubber Imports, Financing Drive Destruction of Climate-Critical Forests in West, Central Africa #AfricaClimateCrisis

Key findings Read more »

Africa: EU Council Agrees to 'Reckless' Gas Plans That Threaten the Climate and Vulnerable Communities #AfricaClimateCrisis

Responding to the European Council endorsing the European Commission's RePowerEU plans to quit Russian gas, Murray Worthy, gas campaign leader at Global Witness said: Read more »

Africa: Guinea's Bribery Saga Reaches New Peaks

Lurid bribery revelations led the government of Guinea to confiscate world-beating iron ore reserves from junior mining company BSG Resources in 2014. So when bitter rival Rio… Read more »

Guinea: Govt Moves to Strip Billionaire of Iron Ore Concession

A government committee in Guinea today recommended stripping diamond billionaire Beny Steinmetz of one of the world's biggest iron ore concessions on evidence his company bribed… Read more »

Guinea: Global Witness to Resist Attempt to Stifle Public-Interest Reporting

Officials of the companies Beny Steinmetz Group Resources and Onyx Financial Advisers have filed a claim in the UK High Court against Global Witness under the Data Protection Act.… Read more »

Guinea: New Evidence Ties BSGR to Company Behind Guinea Mine Bribery

A director of Beny Steinmetz Group Resources set up a company that signed corrupt deals with the wife of an African president in a multi-billion-dollar mine scandal, Global Witness… Read more »

Guinea: Proof Company Was Lying in Mining Scandal?

Beny Steinmetz Group Resources says there was no corrupt behaviour in its acquisition of licences to one of the world's largest iron ore concessions, in the West African nation of… Read more »

Guinea: Corruption Arrest in U.S. Puts Beny Steinmetz Group Resources in the Frame

The US authorities have arrested a man in Florida in connection with the controversial acquisition of mining rights in Guinea by Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR), according to… Read more »

Guinea: Beny Steinmetz Group Resources Must Publicly Address Questions Over Mining Concession

The Financial Times has published serious corruption allegations relating to the confiscation of half of one of the world's biggest iron ore concessions and its granting to a… Read more »