Southern Africa: SADC Embraces Green Wall

Namibia is among southern African countries drafting a concept paper on how to implement the Great Green Wall project to curb desertification, land degradation and climate change.

Former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo launched the Great Green Wall initiative for the Sahara and the Sahel regions in 2005. Other African countries bought into the idea in 2007.

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