Congo-Kinshasa: Deadly DRC Mine Disaster Highlights Human Cost of Coltan

Global Witness is calling for businesses and governments to better consider the human cost of rare earth minerals, following the horrific mine disaster in the Democratic Republic… Read more »

Africa: Thousands Could Be Displaced in DRC By EU Backed Lobito Corridor Railway

Up to 6,500 people could be at risk of eviction by the flagship project, a new Global Witness investigation reveals Read more »

Africa: Thousands in DRC Could Face Eviction From Lobito Corridor Railway

The EU and US-backed Lobito Corridor railway for critical mineral transport risks driving evictions in a mining region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and leaving… Read more »

Africa: Network of Bot-Like Accounts Supporting Sanctioned Mining Billionaire

An online network of bot-like accounts, media sites and X users has been spreading disinformation supporting sanctioned Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler and attacking civil society… Read more »

Africa: Chocolate Giants Fuel Deforestation in West Africa's Last Rainforest

An investigation by Global Witness links some of the world's most popular chocolates, including Mars, Magnums, KitKat, Hersheys and Dairy Milk, to a new deforestation crisis in… Read more »

Africa: COP30 Verdict - People in, Polluters Still In?

The high ambition articulated by the Brazilian COP Presidency at COP30's opening had notably faded by the end of the second week, reflecting the sobering realities of… Read more »

Africa: Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Flood COP30 Climate Talks in Brazil, With Largest Ever Attendance Share

With one in every 25 COP30 attendees a fossil fuel lobbyist, massive industry presence intensifies calls to protect climate negotiations from corporate capture Read more »

Africa: New Global Initiative Aims to Place Environmental Defenders At the Heart of Climate Decisions

Campaigners are hailing today's COP30 launch of a new global initiative aimed at advancing the recognition, protection, and participation of environmental defenders in climate… Read more »

Africa: Global Witness At COP30 - Policies for People Over Polluters

At COP30 in Belém, Global Witness is driving forwards a policy agenda that puts people - not polluters - first Read more »

Africa: Banking On Forests - Inside Private Sector Plans to Shape the Tropical Forests Forever Facility

A $125 billion fund will use profits from global markets to invest in forest protection. Can we trust the same financiers driving deforestation to save the world's forests? Read more »

Africa: How Land Grabbing Harms the Environment and Its Defenders

When land grabbing banishes communities from their homes, the surrounding environment and biodiversity are left at the mercy of destructive industries Read more »

Africa: At Least 146 Land and Environmental Defenders Killed or Disappeared Globally in 2024

New Global Witness figures bring the total up to 2,253 from 2012 to 2024 Read more »

Africa: COP Lobbyists Disclosure Requirements a Huge Win for People Over Polluters

UN Climate Change have announced new disclosure requirements for people attending COP, in a big win for accountability and transparency at climate talks after years of tireless… Read more »

Africa: Documenting Killings and Disappearances of Land and Environmental Defenders

Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental defender is killed or disappeared. Our methodology… Read more »

Africa: Governments Must Back $125bn TFFF Forest Fund With Stronger Finance Laws

The Brazilian Presidency's flagship conservation finance initiative for COP30 - the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) - must be supported by sponsor governments also… Read more »

Africa: Facebook Is the Most Toxic Social Media Platform for Climate Activists - New Survey Suggests

[16th July 2025] - Facebook is the platform where most climate activists report having experienced abuse worldwide, a first ever survey today suggests. Read more »

Africa: What Is Red-Tagging, and How Does It Harm Climate Action?

Red-tagging - which falsely brands legitimate activists as terrorists - is used to silence land and environmental defenders online and in real life Read more »

Africa: Trump Allies Make Millions On Mineral Lobbying Deals As U.S. Cuts Aid

Contracts worth USD $17 million with Trump-linked firms were signed within six months of the 2024 US election, FARA records show 17 of the world's Least Developed Countries and… Read more »

Africa: Revealed - Trump-Linked Firms Cash in On Mineral Lobbying Deals As U.S. Cuts Aid

Pakistan, Somalia and Haiti are among 11 countries that have signed lobbying deals with Trump-linked figures, with many bartering key resources including minerals in exchange for… Read more »

Africa: It's Only Fair That Polluters Pay for Climate Change Costs

With the costs of climate change impacts rapidly rising, the billions pocketed by the fossil fuel industry is an insult to the communities worst hit by extreme weather. It's time… Read more »

Africa: Critical Minerals - the One Issue COP Has Forgotten About

To reverse the climate crisis, COP30 must address the unforeseen consequences of the critical mineral boom, which is adding more deforestation and CO2 emissions Read more »

Africa: Shell Spent 7x More On Oil & Gas Than 'Renewables' in Year of Record-Breaking Heat

As Shell reports Q4 profits of £2.9 billion ($3.6 billion), a new Global Witness analysis reveals the firm paid out a staggering £18.2 billion ($22.6 billion) to… 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 »