[AFR100] Glasgow -- By COP27, which will be held on African soil, funders must invest $2 billion in AFR100 [2], the continent's locally led campaign to restore vitality to 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested land. Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, Minister of Environment of the Republic of Rwanda; Nancy Tembo, Minister of Forestry and Natural Resources of the Republic of Malawi; and Mohammad Abubakar, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Federal Republic of Nigeria issued that challenge today