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Senegal’s Great Green Wall combats desertification

By Al Jazeera
16 November 2016   |   10:02 am
A 7,000km barrier is being built along the footsteps of the Sahara to stop the desert expanding. The Great Green Wall project started in 2007 in Senegal, along with 10 countries in Africa to combat the effects of climate change.

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