Africa is creating its own Great Wall - and it’s green

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• The Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore an 8,000km strip of savanna along the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
• 100 million hectares of land are to be restored, 10 million jobs created and 250 megatonnes of carbon sequestered.
• The initiative has just received a funding boost from donors including France and the World Bank to help achieve its goals by 2030.

Green is not the first colour you typically associate with the arid Sahel region in Africa. But a pan-regional initiative could change this significantly by 2030, following a pledge for new funding of more than $14 billion.

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