Launched by the African Union in 2007, the Great Green Wall (GGW) aims to combat desertification, drought and land degradation across the Sahel with a $33bn reforestation initiative. The goal: a green ...

The De Villiers Graaff Motorway embankment rose in front of us, its golden sands deeply fissured by water run-off. From the top, Barker, a city planner by profession, explained how the landscape to ...

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The Great Green Wall will fail unless it returns to its original aim of being a pan-African project made up of a multitude of aspirations, imaginations and local social-ecological contexts.

As a response, the African Union set up an ambitious continent-wide megaproject in 2007 to address these social-ecological issues and combat poverty. The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree ...

The Western Wall, also known as the Wailing Wall or the Kotel, is the most significant historic site for the Jewish faith. This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King ...

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A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent ... A curious collection of phones on a wall are part of the guided tour at Morocco's Atlas Studios in the city of ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Sindiswa Mabunda covers the sports landscape in Africa. Football, or soccer—depending on whom you ask—has been deeply ingrained in the ...