When Beverage Companies Pretend to Save the Planet
By Humphrey Ukeaja Published by Blacktalker The sugar-sweetened beverage, SSB industry loves a good photograph. A group of people in bright shirts gather on a beach, collecting bottles into neat…
World Health Day: CAPPA Urges Govt. To Prioritise Healthcare Funding, Healthy Food Policies
As the global community acknowledges the occasion of World Health Day, WHD, the Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA has renewed its call for governments at all levels to…
HFPYV Urges Minister to Shield Young Nigerians From Unhealthy Sugary Drinks, Processed Foods
The Healthy Food Policy Youth Vanguard, HFPYV has called on Nigeria’s Minister of Youth Development, Comrade Ayodele Olawande, to back efforts aimed at raising the tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, SSBs…
CAPPA Urges FG, States To Prioritise Healthy Food Policies in Fight Against Cancer
As the world marks World Cancer Day 2025, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa, CAPPA has urged both federal and state governments in Nigeria to develop and implement comprehensive healthy…
World Food Day: Nigerian Youths Decry Unhealthy Foods, Effects on Future Generations
As the world marks World Food Day today with the theme “Right to foods for a better life and a better future”, young people under the aegis of the Healthy…
Global Report Exposes How Beverage Industry Undermines Public Health Policies in Africa
African civil society organizations have released a pivotal report on October 16, 2024, highlighting the beverage industry’s tactics to obstruct public health policies, particularly sugar-sweetened beverage, SSB taxes, in Cameroon,…