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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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Sahara vs Great Green Wall: An 8,000-km green belt is being built across Africa's Sahel region; aims to stop desert expansion

Somewhere between the Atlantic coast of Senegal and the shores of Djibouti on the Red Sea, Africa is attempting something that has never been done before at this scale. A belt of restored land, trees, grasslands, wetlands and farmland stretching roughly 8,000 kilometres across the continent's driest inhabited region.

It is called the Great Green Wall.

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