French President, Macron Names Adesina Champion Of Africa’s Great Green Wall Initiative

France President Emmanuel Macron has named the African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina as a champion of Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative, Igbere TV reports.

The appointment was made at a forum held in the margins of the One Planet Summit 2021 to mobilise support for the ambitious project to plant an 8,000 km swathe of trees and other vegetation across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa.

The green wall will act as a barrier against desertification and aims to create over 10 million green jobs in the region.

“I would also like to welcome the commitment of Dr. Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, who has agreed to take on the role of resource mobilisation champion and help raise, by 2030, all the necessary funds for the realisation of the Great Green Wall,” Mr Macron told participants.

Adesina said in a tweet on Tuesday that he was honoured by the recognition.

“I am greatly honored to be named a Champion of Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative, by President @EmmanuelMacron. It is a wall worth building to save the Sahel of Africa from climate change & desertification,” he said.

https://twitter.com/akin_adesina/status/1348903755090161670?s=20

In the role of champion, Adesina will lead the mobilisation of political and economic support for the initiative.

During the forum, Adesina announced that the bank would mobilise up to $6.5 billion over the next 5 years for the Great Green Wall Initiative, joining multilateral development institutions, governments and development partners that have pledged over $14 billion.

Honour well deserved

Some Nigerians who are making us proud are there while the ones bringing down the name of the country down are there too. Thanks Sir for being a good example like me.

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While one Adeshina is making the country proud on global scale, the other Adeshina is busy selling out his people and burning all bridges he climbed to greatness!!!
I pray the angel in charge of the book of life don't mistake Akinwunmi name for Femi own during registration in heaven.

He deserves it
Like Okonjo-Iweala, like Adeshina

When will I become an icon in the world ?

amaka

okay

Great feet attained.
Hard work still pays. Though not everywhere. I won’t mention country.

Adasina is a wise man his brilliant is attracting world leaders attention, besides he deserves any precious award given to him.

It thought it was the other afonja adesina that has sold his birthright and inheritance to Aboki them.
Keep making is proud baba, even though your brothers here has being mining skull up and down while ipob dun already make cocaine a very hot cake, illiterates Aboki dun make bombing so lucrative, naija deltans dun Mak kidnapping fun

Thought it was Femi Adesina

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Nah eh! No qualms
It can only be a Nigerian
(Giant of Africa)
The odogwu of Africa

ok

Watch how some useless people will pollute dis thread with their ipob dis aboki dat afonja dis gworo dat igbo dis yoruba dat

oya 1 2 3 dem useless animals go arrive now

While the other Adeshina is a bastard..... This is the only adeshina I know

I think there is an agency under d ministry of environment that was assigned dis task in Nigeria then... GGW
Congrats to adesina more wins

Don't trust this french people, they are gradually trying to permeate into africa, if you notice they are allies with china but not rich like china who use money to confuse african countries but french is using deceit.

Imagine if this man was the president of Nigeria. I just hope Nigerians have learnt their lessons. These are the kind of people I like to see on the ballot come 2023

Good.

This Adesina and Ngozi Okonjo I. Should be giving PRESIDENT and VICE PRESIDENT of NIGERIA, these are people that have something to offer and not people with empty brains

CSTRR:
Who is he to do that ?

Is he an African or the head of an African State?

Nonsense.

Who is Netanyahu, Trump or Putin to give Igbos Biafra?

Despite the tons of former French colonies in Africa, the French President singled out a product of the one of the former English colonies for this. Instead of you to be happy, that useless spirit of jealousy and hatred no allow you think straight.

Good concept. Maybe nomadic herders will stop their advancement towards Lagos and calabar.

kuntash:
WHY CANT THEY JUST TEAM THIS GUY WITH OKONJO IWEALA?

Why can't they team Okonjo Iweala with this guy?

Let Okonjo be VP

Good news about Nigerians comes from outside Nigeria lately,maybe we don’t appreciate our potentials afteral....

Adesina is a good, brilliant man.