23 June 2010
Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade is in Chad with 10 other African heads of state to discuss the proposal for The Great Green Wall, a 4831 mile-long belt of trees crossing the continent to halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert.
The Wall would be 15 kilometres wide and would go through 11 countries including Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Sudan and Ethiopia. The project is supported by the African Union but despite being conceived five years ago, it has not yet got underway due to a lack of funding.
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