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TIL of the Great Green Wall of Africa (or the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel) being planted to combat the expansion of the Sahara Desert. Originally proposed in 1954 it is approximately 15% completed and will span 8,000 km across all of the African continent.

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