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In Depth: Project to Beat Back the Sahara Struggles to Take Root, Even With Chinese Expertise

By Kang Jia, Xu Luyi and Guo Xin
2025年06月12日 18:45
Despite some modest successes, the Great Green Wall has been hampered by an insufficient budget, climate change and political upheaval in one of Africa’s most unstable regions
Women in the Sahel participate in seedling cultivation as part of the “Green Great Wall” project. Photo: Green Great Wall

Africa’s Sahel region, a band south of the Sahara Desert that runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is home to more than 140 million people, but faces recurring droughts, hunger and environmental degradation.

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