What could be Africa's greatest environmental project.
11 heads of states from Africa want to stop the Sahara desert from advancing southwards. Meeting for a summit in N'Djamena, Chad, this ended week, the leaders pledged to plant a wall of vegetation running from Dakar to Djibouti.
The barrier aka The Great Green wall, made of different species adopted to climatic and soil conditions of each of the countries, will be 7000km long and 15km wide. The idea was conceived way back in 2005 by various ministers in different countries touching the Sahara desert.
The governments of Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Chad, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Eritrea and Djibouti have owned the project and given it the political support needed to initiate it. Subsequently a number of organizations have already committed funds and technical support to this ambitious project.
Given the fast rate of desertification and what the project seeks to achieve for nationalities of countries threatened by the expansion of the Sahara desert, this could well be the most brilliant of projects coming from Africa. It is to be hoped that the push and commitment shown so far by the political leaders, will greatly boosts chances of its success. More here
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