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    Dec 03, 2018 5 minutes

    The Great Wall of Africa

    Here’s something you can hit back with when you next find yourself at the same table as an Afro-pessimist: have you ever heard of the Great Green Wall? It’s a massive project with the goal to plant a 16km-wide, 8 000km-long strip of indigenous trees across the width of Africa in the semi-arid region between the Sahara Desert to the north and the belt of humid savannah to the south. The full name is the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and Sahel Initiative, an African Union project involving more than 20 countries.

    Climate change will hit the Sahel harder than any other region on earth. Drought, famine, conflict over diminishing natural resources and a mass exodus to Europe will likely follow.

    But communities from

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