Security concerns, lack of funding and political will stall Africa’s Great Green Wall

Posted on May 23, 2022 by thegrio.com

First proposed in 2005, the program aims to plant a forest all the way from Senegal on the Atlantic Ocean in the west to Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti in the east.

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of complex challenges – including a lack of funding and political will as well as rising insecurity linked to extremist groups, al-Qaida and the Islamic State, in Burkina Faso – is obstructing progress on Africa’s today!

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