In a world grappling with environmental threats, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) emerged as an African solution to build a sustainable future across the vast Sahel ...

The Sahel region's Great Green Wall Initiative received a major boost from the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) on Monday. During a forum hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and His ...

Desertification made worse by climate change is outpacing a U.N.-backed project to protect millions of people in Africa’s Sahel region. Few climate adaption projects can match the sheer ambition — or ...

A semi-arid landscape surrounds the Sahel village of Ndiawagne Fall on one end of the Great Green Wall project, in Kebemer, Senegal, Nov. 5, 2021 (AP photo by Leo Correa). Click to share on Twitter ...

In an arid valley near the village of Kourtimale in southern Djibouti, a tattered chain link fence marks the boundaries of what was once Abdi Guelleh's farm. Within it, there's not a speck of greenery ...

In 2021, Gadeja Shehu and about a hundred farmers in Garbadu village, Zamfara State in northwestern Nigeria, were invited by officials of the National Agency for the Great Green Wall to plant trees ...

Fourteen years since the launch of Africa’s Great Green Wall project, only 4% of the 100 million hectares (247 million acres) of land targeted for restoration in the Sahel region has actually been ...

Despite a commitment to good governance, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) has experienced critical implementation and coordination challenges. For the initiative to ...

Fifteen years ago, the African Union decided on an ambitious program: degraded ecosystems in parts of the Sahel are to be successively restored in order to secure food for the people living there and ...