The idea for Africa’s Great Green Wall came in the 1970s and ’80s, when the once-fertile Sahel began to turn barren and dry as a result of changing climate and land use.

Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall, a mosaic of reforestation efforts to stop desertification, has been plagued by delays and challenges. Some reforestation efforts, however, have tasted ...

By contrast, the Trump administration set itself the target of 509 miles of new or converted barrier walls by the end of his administration, including the section of wall Biden has just approved ...

Africa Expands Failing Tree Planting Project Great Green Wall has only achieved about 20% of its target Initiative is expanding to southern Africa under new strategy ...

Every Monday at 8 p.m. since November, Bulawayo residents have gathered next to their toilets to prepare for a ritual that has come to be known as the big flush—another sign of a water emergency ...

As southern Africa enters its traditional dry season this month, vast parts of the region — including Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and ...

The president has railed against South Africa’s seizures of land from white farmers. But during his first term, he pushed to take land for his border wall using eminent domain.

The African Development Bank pledged approximately $6.5 billion for the wall by 2025 during the U.N.’s climate conference in November last year following an effort led by France in early 2021 ...

Africa's mega-project to help combat climate change, desertification, and land degradation has seen positive strides. The project will see a 4,722-mile green wall that will aim to restore 100 ...

A majority of Americans now support building a US-Mexico border wall — and six in 10 see illegal immigration under President Biden as a “very serious” problem, a new poll shows.