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: Defending the Environment in the Time of Covid-19 - Increasing Threats, Clampdowns On Freedoms and Tragic Losses

Protecting the environment has become even more dangerous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Land and environmental defenders across the globe already face killings, threats, harassment… Read more »

Africa: How to Tackle the Illegal Timber Trade? New Rules On Implementing China's Forest Law Could Hold the Key

As consumer and industry demand increases, China's timber imports have grown rapidly in recent years. The country now relies on imports for over half of its timber. But many of the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Global Witness Pledges to Bring Greater Transparency to DRC's Mining Sector

Last week we published an investigation reporting that the controversial mining magnate, Dan Gertler has seemingly used a suspected international money laundering network… 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 »