A Nigerien farmer harvesting acacia tree pods at the Great Green Wall site in Simiri, about 100km north of Niamey. Photo: Boureima/AFP
After years of struggling with insufficient funds, efforts to build Africa's Great Green Wall – a massive defence line against desertification – have received a major boost.
The initiative concerning 11 countries on the rim of the world's biggest desert was first launched to great acclaim in 2005, only to battle a lack of cash.
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