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Posted on 04/11/2026 6:46:09 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In an arid valley near the village of Kourtimale in southern Djibouti, a tattered chain link fence marks the boundaries of what was once Abdi Guelleh's farm.
...was once meant to be one tiny brick in one of the world's most ambitious environmental projects: Africa's Great Green Wall.
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This multi-billion dollar project was launched by the African Union in 2007. The plan: to plant a "wall" of trees spanning the entire width of Africa — 4,350 miles long and 10 miles wide — to fight desertification in the Sahel, the arid region to the south of the Sahara desert.
The Wall's vision was boundless, and its backers called it a "new world wonder." It would re-green nearly 250 million acres of land across 11 countries from Senegal to Djibouti, and in doing so, would sequester 250 million tons of carbon, provide "green jobs" for 10 million people and alleviate poverty, food insecurity and conflict across the region.
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[T]he United Nations estimated that $33 billion would be needed to complete the Wall. In each of the 11 countries, a national agency or dedicated ministerial department was set up to implement and track the project, with a coordinating entity, the Pan-African Great Green Wall Agency, based in Mauritania. International organizations — United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Union, the Green Climate Fund, the Global Environment Facility and others — pledged billions.
Eighteen years later, vast amounts of money have been spent, yet most of the planned Wall remains no more green than Abdi Guelleh's barren field. What began as one of the world's most ambitious ecological undertakings has in many ways devolved into a cautionary tale of poorly planned projects, lacking in local participation and entangled in a labyrinth of opaque financing.
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It would be impossible for me to be less surprised or to care less.
They need cows and migratory people more than trees. The key is to change the albedo and increase transpiration to draw the monsoon to the north east.
>>The plan: to plant a “wall” of trees spanning the entire width of Africa — 4,350 miles long and 10 miles wide — to fight desertification in the Sahel, the arid region to the south of the Sahara desert.
Seems like “the plan” was simply to embezzle billions of dollars with “fighting desertification” as only a hook to separate fools from their money.
Translation: The usual international hucksters got rich off it.
It would re-green nearly 250 million acres of land... would sequester 250 million tons of carbon, provide "green jobs" for 10 million people and alleviate poverty, food insecurity and conflict across the region.
What are you saying? That it didn't work?!?
I was taught that deserts are an important part of our ecosystem. We have mountains, deserts, coastal plains, plains, rain forest, savannahs, dry forests, ice caps, oceans. . . all are vital. Why demonize the desert?
US contributions make up roughly 28% of the UN’s budget. So, yeah. Your tax dollars at “work”. Not that anyone cares.
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The Desert has no clue what walls are ,LOL
Africa wins again. The one place where the birth rate is still positive and yet no sane country wants most of these people . Over one billion and nearly every country there is a S*hole.
Have Klaus Schwab turn out his pockets.
I bet you’ll find a couple of billion of those Green Wall dollars in there.
Maybe the Guild Navigators took all the spice and retired to Arakis.
Eco-nut criminals continue their grift. What idiocy!
IT IS AFRICA-——
At least they are paying their unproductive poor to do something. We pay ours to do drugs and crap on the doorsteps.
About the only African aid project I’ve heard of that sounded like it would work were the little ones with an income coming from it, small loans to buy a woman a sewing machine and material to get her started for example, manageable projects that motivated individuals can utilize to enrich their family, leading to small incremental growth among the larger group. This household has a little income and that household has a little income and capitalism slowly starts creating buying and selling within that group.
Africans don’t seem to have a sense of cooperation or of the future so big projects end up just contributing to the corruption and a temporary distribution of whatever monies flow through it, which is why all the infrastructure of colonialism from roads and trains didn’t last, giving them golden gooses doesn’t help because they feast on it that night but giving individuals little personalized golden gooses may help build a structure and bring market concepts to the remote populations.
It could just be that they will never be able to build complex societies and that it will always be a few wealthy, a few servants, and a lot of not very intelligent lazy day to day people satisfied with scratching out a living and taking a handout or an easy steal when they can get it.
A lot of nations of the world have large black populations, do they all look similar, and do they all seem similar to Africa.
Greenies wasting billions of dollars. Nothing new.
“This multi-billion dollar project was launched by the African Union in 2007.”
Yeah, I wonder where those billions came from.
What a waste!
“entangled in a labyrinth of opaque financing.”
Anybody care to guess what that means? Bueller?
Probably just a stunt to prove that walls don’t work.
Oh yeah, and to steal as much money as possible.
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