A judge in Kenya has ordered that a biofuels project be suspended after environmental and community groups took the government to court.

Conserving the Congo forest, and indeed all of our forests in Africa, as well as accelerating forestation efforts, is vital to our survival on a continent where the Sahara Desert is expanding to the North and the Kalahari Desert is expanding to the Southwest.

We must keep up the pressure on the world’s superpowers to ‘do the right thing’ in Darfur and Burma—and create the conditions for long-lasting peace and democracy.

Nobel Peace Laureate and Founder of the Green Belt Movement Prof. Wangari Maathai of Kenya is part of a high level delegation to Sudan and Chad organized by the Nobel Womens Initiative.