They are part of a group of thirty-one public intellectuals from seven cities in the Global South, who will serve as Open ...

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

The UNESCO World Heritage Site was constructed over the course of 2,000 years. It worked as a fortification system to defend ...

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In response, African nations have undertaken one of the most ambitious environmental and humanitarian initiatives in human history: the Great Green Wall. The goal is simple: to plant as many trees as ...

Consumed by Terror: Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall faces crucial threat (1) On proposed completion in 2030, the Great Green Wall is expected to be the largest living structure on the planet ...

An ambitious and bold project looks to help desertification in Africa and to combat African nations from being swallowed up by the Sahara Desert.

ACI Africa, Jan 18, 2025 / 07:00 am Members of the Episcopal Conference of Benin (CEB) have appealed for calm ahead of the West African country’s 2026 general elections. In a statement issued at ...

The £26bn 'great wall of Africa' spanning 22 countries and over 4,000 miles long This staggering project aims to halt the expansion of the Sahara Desert by planting a wall of trees stretching ...

Can Africa’s Great Green Wall overcome conflict and political upheaval to transform the Sahel by 2030? Launched by the African Union in 2007, the Great Green Wall (GGW) aims to combat desertification, ...

The aim of this ambitious project is to stop the expansion of the Sahara to the south along 8,000 kilometres.