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GEF backs ‘Great Green Wall’ with 119 million dollars
The Global Environment Facility announced Thursday at a summit in Chad that it will fund a "Great Green Wall" to reforest northern Africa to the tune of 119 million dollars (96 million euros).
The leaders of 11 African nations had gathered Thursday in the Chadian capital for the first summit on the Great Green Wall, which is a pan-African proposal to reforest the continent from west to east to battle desertification.