The Great Green Wall – An Attempt to Stop Desertification
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Abstract
This paper tries to demonstrate the grandiose collaboration between the countries of the Sahel region that focuses on building the Great Green Wall. Global warming, rainfall decrease, climate change and desertification make life harder for those living there. The 11 countries on the southern part of the Sahara (Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan) decided to fight against desertification and they intended to halt the Sahara from southwards stretching. Millions of people are forced to leave their homes because of heat and drought and this phenomenon maintains and generates new kinds of migration trends. It is no coincidence that experts from military science research fields also pay special attention to this area.