After decades of drought, water is returning to the south of Sahara Desert as ancient farming techniques and the Great Green Wall breathe new life into the Sahel

The Sahel region, spanning 5,900 km across Africa, is seeing degraded farmland turn green due to revived ancient farming techniques and the Great Green Wall initiative.

Traditional methods like zai pits are being revived in Burkina Faso, Niger, and other Sahelian countries to capture rainfall, improve soil moisture, and restore degraded land.

The restoration effort focuses on making the most of existing rainfall by allowing it to soak into the soil rather than creating new water sources or reversing rainfall decline.