2030 completion goal unlikely for Africa's Great Green Wall, currently 30% complete.
Africa's Great Green Wall, launched in 2007 to restore degraded landscapes and boost economies, is currently only 30% complete and is unlikely to meet its 2030 completion goal, according to the president of the most recent UN summit on desertification, Alain Richard Donwahi. The project aims to restore an 8,000 km corridor from the Atlantic to the Red Sea and benefits some of the world's poorest countries at the edge of the Sahara Desert, including Ethiopia, Mali, and Sudan.
June 12, 2024
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