Chinese desert control edge boosts Mauritanian green efforts

Tourad Medou (R, Front), co-coordinator of the Mauritania Demonstration Project of the China-Africa Green Technology Park, talks to workers in Bir El Barka, Trarza region, western Mauritania, on May 22, 2025. The China-Africa Green Technology Park is a key demonstration project supporting Africa's Great Green Wall Initiative, launched in 2007 to create a 7,000-km ecological barrier across northern Africa and the Sahel to combat desertification. (Xinhua/Si Yuan)