ZAMBIA

Tales of Toxics Tourists SOUTHERN AFRICA: Zambia by Denny and Ruth September 28th, 2007 We arrived in Lusaka, the capitol of Zambia, and were met my Edward Lange of Development and Education Community Project (DECOP) and his wife Valerie. After cramming our considerable luggage into the trunk of their car, we headed off in search of the local currency and new sim cards for our African cell phone.

Field report: Glencore Copper Mine and Smelter, Mufulira, Copperbelt Province, Zambia: Acid leaching of copper has destroyed land, crops and lives in a shocking example of greed and deception

KENYA

KENYA: GCM returns for a follow up regional training Regional Trainer Shweta Narayan provides a daily glimpse of our training in Kenya

KENYA: Bucket Brigade Meets Obama's Grandma, National Training for Environmental Justice Communities Underway Members of the Global Bucket Brigade Network traveled to the ancestral home of the Obama family

Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations Earlier this year, in an attempt to discourage the use of plastic bags, the Kenyan government slapped a 120 per cent tax on plastic. While the tax may look like an environmentally friendly decision, it could result in severe impacts on the environment. One of the beneficiaries of the decision will be the partly government-owned Pan African Paper Mills.

KENYA: Independent Tests Confirm Pan Paper Neighbors in Webuye Breathing Dangerously Toxic Air and Suffering from Nzoia River Pollution For the first time in Kenya, independent air samples taken in Webuye town reveal that people living near Pan African Paper Mills are breathing highly toxic air.

Winning Clean Air for Kenya: Bucket Brigades for Environmental Justice! Since 1974, a pulp mill in Western Kenya has been polluting the air and water in the town of Webuye. Visitors report that the air smells like rotten cabbage and “snowstorms” of foam droplets from the mill’s waste ponds cloud the sky and burn the skin and nose.

NIGERIA

SOUTH AFRICA

SOUTH AFRICA: Communities Launch Particulate Matter Testing Program Targeting Mines and Metals Facilities For the first time, communities living in South Africa’s air pollution hotspots will be able to test the air for heavy metals and dust particles.

Durban, South Africa: Oil Depot Inferno Hundreds of residents on the Bluff in Durban had to be evacuated after three tanks exploded at about 6.30 pm. The blaze could not be contained and by 10.30 pm had spread to six more tanks in the depot

South Africa National Bucket Brigade Training Citizen activists from all over South Africa converged in Johannesburg, one of the largest cities in South Africa and the country's main center of industry, finance, and commerce and the capital of Gauteng province