$20 Million for Sudan to Fund African Great Green Wall
27 July, 2015NOUAKCHOTT (SUDANOW) - Sudan has received a $20million grant from the World Bank towards implementation of the African Great Green Wall (GGW) projects in six Sudanese states, namely, Kassala, Gazira, White Nile, River Nile, Northern State and Northern Kordufan, according to the Minister for Environment, Natural Resources and Urban Development.
The GGW projects sprang from an initiative by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005. Crossing the continent from the West to the east, the GGW aims at staving off the climatic changes through planting trees acclimatized to the African environment. The process is thought to curb soil erosion, slow down the speed of the wind and soil seepage of the rain-water.
The Minister, Dr. Hassan Abdul Gadir Hilal, said the Sudan has now received $8.3million of the total sum to cover implementation of the projects in those states while the rest of the fund will be delivered later to finance the GGW in other five states.
Hilal, who is attending the Third African Summit of the GGW which started in Mauritania today, said largest portion of the GGW passes through the Sudan, stretching 1,520 kilometers in length and 25 kilometers width. The country will benefit to a great extent from the GGW projects because as they cover the gum Arabic belt, populated by more than 10 million people.
The projects provide for erection of systems to check the desert creep as well as preserving biological diversity in the said regions. The projects also help in the rural development process of building towns, schools and hospitals and securing potable and irrigation water in those areas that lie at the peripheries of the Rich Savanna and extend to the Poor Savanna where the Sahara starts.
It is to be noted that eleven African states are taking part in the GGW, including the Sudan, Chad, Burkina Faso, Niger, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Eritrea and Djibouti.
President Omar Bashir arrived yesterday (Sunday) to Nouakchott, leading Sudan’s delegation to the summit.
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