WoMin African Alliance
We are a Pan African ecofeminist alliance for climate justice and to advance women-centered, community-driven development alternatives.
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- “Defending the territory of extractivism did not only decolonize, also from statelessing” - Read an interview in Directa, with Georgine Kengne, WoMin’s Consent & Right to Say NO Coordinator. (Original article in Catalan). directa.cat/defensar-el-...
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- 🌍🗓️ Our first ever annual calendar celebrates the strength of African women’s activism, organising, and movement building - woven through ecofeminist and Pan-African visions of liberation 🌱 🌐 Download & share widely! womin.africa/womin-2026-e...
- 📢🌍 𝑳𝙖𝒏𝙘𝒆𝙢𝒆𝙣𝒕 - 𝘾𝒂𝙡𝒆𝙣𝒅𝙧𝒊𝙚𝒓 𝒆́𝙘𝒐𝙛𝒆́𝙢𝒊𝙣𝒊𝙨𝒕𝙚 𝙒𝒐𝙈𝒊𝙣 2026 Nous démarrons l'année avec notre premier calendrier !🗓️🌱 Découvrez-le ici 👉https://womin.africa/womin-2026-ecofeminist-calendar/
- 📢🌍 𝑳𝑨𝑼𝑵𝑪𝑯 - 𝑾𝒐𝑴𝒊𝒏 2026 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓 We kick off the year with our 1st calendar! We hope you use it to inspire your movement building and resistance and dreaming & imagining truly radical alternatives 🌱✊. 🗓️👉 womin.africa/womin-2026-e...
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- Reposted by WoMin African Alliance🔥 In this powerful account of land grabs & the weaponisation of hunger in Sudan, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social shows how Sudanese farmers & pastoralists organise to recover territory & build food sovereignty in the midst of devastating conflict: transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...
- 🖊️ Petition - Ritz-Carlton: out of the Maasai Mara now!⛔️. There’s another court hearing on December 19. Let’s show Ritz that the world is watching — and show the Maasai that we’re with them as they fight this luxury stain on their land 🌍🌱 action.eko.org/a/ritz-carlt...
- 🌍 As we close off 2025, the WoMin team celebrates our community across Africa and around the world, and looks ahead to 2026. In Solidarity and Hope! 🌱
- Reposted by WoMin African Alliance(EN/FR) WoMin @wominafrica.bsky.social is a Pan African ecofeminist alliance supporting peasant and working-class women build post-extractivist, ecologically just, and women-centred futures. Check out their newsletter: 💡English: mailchi.mp/womin/newsle... 💡French: mailchi.mp/womin/newsle...
- 🌍Alors que l'année 2025 touche à sa fin, l'équipe WoMin rend hommage à notre communauté à travers l'Afrique et le monde entier, et se tourne vers 2026. Dans la solidarité et l'espoir ! 🌱 🔗https://mailchi.mp/womin/2025-year-end
- APWLD invites grassroots women’s rights organisations and movements to apply for the 2026-2027 #ClimateJustice Feminist Participatory Action Research (#FPAR) on resisting imperialism, extractivism and false #blueeconomy solutions. Read more 👉https://apwld.org/jobs/
- This global appetite for critical minerals from Africa robs communities of their natural resources without their consent or fair compensation, while devastating their communal lands and territories. womin.africa/standing-str...
- How can we fight for a truly just transition without fueling more exploitation? Could alternative approaches reduce or eliminate the need for new extraction? What does this shift mean for frontline, rural, and Indigenous communities? www.tni.org/en/dossier/d...
- 📰𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 🌍- In this last edition for 2025, we celebrate the start of 16 Days of Activism Read more 👉https://mailchi.mp/womin/newsletter-2025-nov-eng 📩Don’t miss out on upcoming issues! Subscribe & follow us on our socials 🔗 eepurl.com/hf509f
- 🌍📰𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞 disponible dès maintenant! Pour en savoir plus, consultez notre dernière newsletter pour 2025. 🔗https://mailchi.mp/womin/newsletter-2025-nov-french
- 📢International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women ⚠️ 🧾Read our 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬’ 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐊𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 – 𝐀 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 & more resources 👇 womin.africa/building-act... #VAW #GBV #16DaysofActivism
- 📢 REMINDER - Join WoMin for our webinar publication launch 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑶𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒂𝒔 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂 🗓️Wed 26 November |⏲️2pm GMT Pls register👉 bit.ly/hopesandhaza...
- 📢RAPPEL de lancement de publication 🗓️⏲️Mercredi 26 novembre | 2pm GMT 📬Inscription : bit.ly/hopesandhaza...
- “Despite being referred to as an Indigenous #Cop … it became clear that #Indigenous peoples continue to be excluded from the negotiations” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- 🌍📖Sierra Leone Learning Tour - WoMin's 1st steps in our Land & Nature Commons building efforts with women from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe & Sierra Leone, defending customary land & Right to Say NO to extractivism. #R2SNO #FPIC #landrights #ecofeminism
- “Supporting the #Congo basin is not charity. It’s about recognising its role in protecting the Earth through its carbon sink. “The people of the Congo basin have tightened their belts so that the world can breathe – and we receive no compensation.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- The paper captures the collective reflections, critiques, and visionary propositions of African feminists seeking alternatives to neoliberalism and its entrenched impacts on the continent. actionaid.org/publications...
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- 🌍 Webinaire de lancement de publication 𝑬𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒓𝒔 𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒆́𝒔 𝒂̀ 𝒍'𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒖 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒖𝒓 𝒑𝒆́𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒕 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒏 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒄𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆. 🗓️ Mercredi 26 novembre | ⏰ 14h00 GMT / 16h00 CAT ✍🏾 Inscription : bit.ly/hopesandhaza...
- 📢Join us for our webinar publication launch 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑶𝒊𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑮𝒂𝒔 𝑬𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑨𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂. 📅Wed 26 November ⏲️14h00 GMT/16h00 CAT 🔗Pls register: bit.ly/hopesandhaza...
- “We don’t just resist. We govern, we restore, we teach. We are not a topic at #COP30: we are its answer,” declared Teresa Zapeta. www.environewsnigeria.com/from-resista...
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- #Nigeria is also being battered by climate change related flooding and heat waves — and urgently needs resources to cope with these impacts, says expert Priscilla Airohi-Alikor. www.dw.com/en/how-ken-s...
- Raj Patel presents an analysis of how household and sovereign #debt enforces a neo-colonial system of #exploitation and how global social #movements are organising for debt #justice as the foundation for food #sovereignty. progressive.international/wire/2025-11...
- #WomensClimateAssembly #Nigeria After 3 days of shared learning, testimony & strategy building, participants produced a powerful #communiqué reaffirming women’s leadership in climate action & issuing a clear set of observations, demands and commitments. www.kebetkachewomencentre.com/post/nigeria...
- #COP30 "And today, we see history repeating. Communities mistreated. Rights trampled. Environments trashed. Nations stuck at the bottom of value chains while others reap rewards. And extractive models digging deeper holes of inequality and harm. This must end.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
- Okon also stated that frontline communities have continued to suffer the impacts of extractivism. “The worst thing is that we are frontline to the extractive activities going on in the Niger Delta. We have been having gas flaring for the past seven decades. naturenews.africa/climate-chan...
- African women’s stubborn hope and unwavering solidarity are a testimony to the power of political education in sustaining social movements and organising, and serve as a foundation for a strong Pan African ecofeminist movement. womin.africa/political-ed....
- CHECK OUT OUR LATEST ISSUE! 📢In this edition of Women Weaving a Just World, we honour the voices, experiences and analysis of African women and communities on the frontlines of struggle for justice in all its forms. 🔗 mailchi.mp/womin/newsle...
- 🌍📰𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐓𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐔𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞 disponible dès maintenant! En savoir plus👇 🔗 mailchi.mp/womin/newsle...
- 📢🌍Delegations from seven communities in #Namakwaland & #Richtersveld handed over affidavits & reports to representatives of 🏦Min of Land Reform & Rural Development, Mzwanele Nyhontso. #RighttoSayNO! #FPIC #Land
- 🌍 Webinar - The Road to #COP30! 🗓️ 29 Oct 2025 🕒 3–5pm EAT 💻 Virtual (Zoom + YouTube) 🔗 Register: bit.ly/49dTsIf #RoadToCOP30 #JustTransitionRising
- 📢Today sees the opening of Kebetkache's local #WomensClimateAssembly in Niger Delta 🌍. Participants will engage in dialogues, workshops & strategy sessions to challenge greenwashing at upcoming forums like COP30, reject carbon markets, & advocate for African-led solutions #WCA #ecofeminism #Nigeria
- Community members gather outside of the South African Parliament. Communities from #Namaqualand are speaking out while others are making presentations to the select committee on Land, Agriculture and Minerals. #Land #R2SNO #FPIC #Namakwaland
- #SouthAfrica - #Namakwaland communities are picketing outside of Parliament today. They want to sit in on a hearing of the Select Committee of Minerals & Energy & aim to deliver an urgent letter to Min of Land Reform & Rural Development, Mzwanele Nyhontso, reaffirming their demands.
- 🌍 In WEDO's 2nd Critical Conversations series hosting feminist dialogues, Melania Chiponda, Director of the SHINE Collab discusses specific aspects of a gender-just transition 📺 Watch - Critical Minerals: Extracting Injustice from “Clean” Energy with Mela Chiponda youtu.be/q_u31wAigPM?...
- 📰📢🌍Press Release - Nigeria Women's Climate Assembly Forges South-South Solidarity: Uniting Women for Climate Justice – from Africa to the Amazon! 🌎 🗞️Read more about the assembly👇 www.kebetkachewomencentre.com/post/nigeria... #WCA #ecofeminism #COP30 #oil #gas #extractives #R2SNO
- “The orchestrator(s) of Mam’ Ntshangase’s murder, those being the person or persons who hired these hitmen, remain at large. Until such time as those who arranged & commissioned this assassination are identified & brought to justice, this case cannot be closed www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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- Join in for Peoples under imperialist attack and internationalist alternatives 🌎 📅 Oct 28, 2025 ⏰ 10 am (Belém/Brazil) | 3 pm (Gaza/Palestine) | 2 pm (Niamey/Niger) 🔗Register in advance zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- 🌍🌱Remembering #FikileNtshangase on the 5th year anniversary of her brutal assassination. Despite her brave resistance ✊to #mining in her community, the violations continue. #ecofeminism #R2SNO #FPIC #naturalresources
- #Uganda 📢Urgent appeal to protect Kitubulu Central Forest Reserve 🌳🌍. The CECIC calls on the National Forestry Authority to protect the Kitubulu Central Forest Reserve from a proposed allocation of 150 acres for development. cecicug.org/download/urg...
- 📑📢 Déclaration commune - Le Mouvement des peuples de l'océan Indien (MPOI) appelle la Commission de l'océan Indien à soutenir le peuple malgache dans sa quête de #justice et de #souveraineté. Lire la déclaration complète ci-dessous. #Madagascar
- 📑📢Joint Statement - the Movement of the Peoples of the Indian Ocean (MPOI) calls on the Indian Ocean Commission to support the #Malagasy people in their quest for #justice and #sovereignty. Read the full statement below. #Madagascar
- “Local indigenous women are left out of international platforms, even though they are the ones directly affected” indigenoustime.com/news/in-ugan...
- Delinking Festival 🌺 Feminists and allies from the Global South will share strategies for delinking from capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism—and building economies centred on life and justice. 📅 Fri, October 24 | 10:00–13:30 (CDMX) 💻 Hybrid and 🎧 ES/EN
- Radical Realism – Climate Change and the challenge of temperature goal overshoot 📅⏲️Oct 20, 2025 - 1pm in Johannesburg 🔗https://wits-za.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8sseOn6SR9OLUhJVmPrpHg#/registration
- The Tanzania #R2SNO training participants visited mining affected areas in Singida to bear witness & share solidarity with the community.🌍 #ecofeminism #RighttoSayNO! #FPIC #extractives
