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Melissa Chemam with RFI

Africa is battling plastic pollution and waste crisis, activists say

A Greenpeace team has carried out infrared scans and analyses textile waste at the landfill site near Mortuary Road in Ghana from 2023. © Kevin McElvaney / Greenpeace - Kevin McElvaney

Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these overlapping challenges, RFI interviewed campaigners and negotiators from across the continent.

Zitouni Ould Dada, a veteran of at least 15 Cop meetings, is attending Cop again. Previsiously he was there as a director with the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), this time he is with the FAIRR Initiative, a collaborative investor network focused on raising awareness of environmental, social, and governance risks as well as opportunities in the global food sector.

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