The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working? | tldr: no

Sltldr: "They're just throwing away money, planting trees in the desert for them to die."

The Great Green Wall is a top down, big government intervention that has little to no local buy-in and isn't sustainable without continued big government funding.

Not surprisingly, the funding has mostly dried up, and so has the land.