April 9, 2021 You are here: Home / World Economic Forum / Africa is creating its own Great Wall – and it’s green Africa is creating its own Great Wall – and it’s green (Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Andrea Willige, Senior Writer, Formative Content The Great Green Wall initiative aims to restore an 8,000km strip of savanna along the southern edge of the Sahara desert. 100 million hectares of land are to be restored, 10 million jobs created and 250 megatonnes of carbon sequestered. The initiative has just received a funding boost from donors including France and the World Bank to help achieve its goals by 2030.