How is Africa's Great Green Wall progressing?
Have you heard of the Great Green Wall? It鈥檚 a wall of plants currently being grown across Africa, from Senegal in the West to Djibouti in the East.
The project was started 10 years ago as a solution to the environmental threat facing the continent ranging from climate change, to drought and famine. Its aim is to restore degraded lands and provide jobs and opportunities for millions of people in Africa.
On Tuesday at an event in the United Arab Emirates, a delegation of leaders, mainly from the Sahel region, are meeting to discuss the Wall鈥檚 progress.
Newsday spoke to the Executive Secretary at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Ibrahim Thiaw in Dubai.
(Photo: A farmer in Niger sits in the shade of a tree in the Great Green Wall site in Simiri, about 100km north of Niamey, on November 13, 2021. Credit: Boureima Hama/AFP via Getty Images)
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