The Congo basin and forest, a green wall and the fast disappearing Lake Chad (Google / Sierra Express Media)

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Gabon’s forest alone absorbs 4 times the carbon that France emits

Wetlands International

By: SEM Contributor on December 13, 2011.

The high-level African leaders who included the Africa Union’s Chairman Hon. Jean Ping, the head of the African Development bank Dr. Donald Kaberuka, Congo-Brazzavile’s minister for sustainable development, Hon. Henrie Jombo and South Africa’s minister for National Planning, Hon. Trevor Manuel took the opportunity to launch the Green Initiative. This three-program initiative shall focus on protecting the Congo basin and forest, creating a green wall across the Sahara from Djibouti to Dakar that is aimed at halting desertification and thirdly, it shall revive the fast disappearing Lake Chad.

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