To combat the brewing drought and desertification, the African Union developed the Great Green Wall Initiative in 2007. The ...

Everyone knows the Great Wall of China, but likely far fewer have heard of China's "Great Green Wall," which recently hit a major milestone after more than four decades of tree-planting.

An epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall — an ambitious vision to grow a wall of trees stretching across the entire continent to fight against increasing drought, desertification and ...

The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree planting restoration project that stretches from Senegal to Djibouti, 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region. In Téssékéré, bare ...

the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, national-level CSO leaders and social accountability experts. Transparency International Secretariat will leverage the opportunity provided by ...

Despite a red wave sweeping across America last November, a green wall is descending over part of the country. As President ...

Sunset over the Sahel in Niger. Credit: Harmattan Toujours The huge environmental project stretching across the Sahel region of Africa, known as the Great Green Wall (GGW), provides the biggest ...