The Great Green Wall - a podcast by BBC World Service

International efforts are accelerating to save huge swathes of the Sahel - a belt of land running across Africa just below the Sahara - from becoming desert themselves. Millions of euros were pledged at a virtual summit last month, focused on creating what environmental activists have called a Great Green Wall. But why has a project that began 13 years ago been so slow to deliver? The BBC's Fergus Nicoll reports.
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