{"id":38560,"date":"2018-11-25T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandans-in-egypt-fight-use-of-plastic-bags\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T10:18:13","slug":"rwandans-in-egypt-fight-use-of-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandans-in-egypt-fight-use-of-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandans in Egypt fight use of plastic bags through Umuganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 24, Rwandans in Egypt joined the Egyptian community in the fight against plastic bags, attracting over 100 people including; Rwandan students, army, Rwandan Imams on short-term courses to fight extremism, with some Egyptian locals who met at Saqqara in Egypt. <\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador of Rwanda to Egypt, Sheikh Saleh Habimana told IGIHE that Umuganda activities were done in a bid to partner with Egypt for ushering durable development initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe did Umuganda activities by removing plastic bags which block drainage. We also showed Egyptians how the program to ban plastic bags was implemented in Rwanda to protect the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Egyptians asked Rwandans in the country to engage them in the last Umuganda activities of this year on December 29.<\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Saqqara in Giza Governorate, Gen Labib said: \u201cWe want to adopt this program starting from next year so that it reaches the whole country. We ask you to help us do a big Umuganda session next month so that the whole nation will know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Umuganda activities on Saturday, Rwandans in Egypt drove to the Rwandan Embassy in Egypt where they discussed different development issues.<\/p>\n<p>During the October 2018 Umuganda, Rwandans in Egypt planted trees along the shores of River Nile at Al Haram in Giza Governorate.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will replace President Paul Kagame as Chairman of the African Union (AU).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27636 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwandns_shared_to_egyptians_how_they_were_able_to_ban_plastic_bags.jpg\" alt=\"Rwandans shared to Egyptians how they were able to ban plastic bags\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27637 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambassador_sheikh_saleh_habimana_with_other_rwandans_who_participated_november_2018_umuganda_activities.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Sheikh Saleh Habimana with other Rwandans who participated in Umuganda activities\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27638 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/egyptian_ppeople_were_happy_to_join_rwandans_in_activitity_with_roots_from_traditional_rwanda_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Egyptian people were happy to join Rwandans in activities with roots from traditional Rwanda\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 24, Rwandans in Egypt joined the Egyptian community in the fight against plastic bags, attracting over 100 people including; Rwandan students, army, Rwandan Imams on short-term courses to fight extremism, with some Egyptian locals who met at Saqqara in Egypt. The Ambassador of Rwanda to Egypt, Sheikh Saleh Habimana told IGIHE that Umuganda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38560"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38560"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}