N'Djamena, June 26, 2025 (AFP) - Chad hopes 'green charcoal' can save vanishing forests

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2025-06-26

Covered in black soot, the workers zigzagged from one machine to another in the searing African sun. But the charcoal they were making is known as "green", and backers hope it can save impoverished Chad from rampant deforestation. Chad, a vast, landlocked country of 19 million people perched at the crossroads of north and central Africa, is steadily turning to desert. It has lost more than 90 percent of its forest cover since the 1970s, hit by cl......

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