Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development and Environment, announced the completion of Phase 4 of the presidential initiative to plant “100 Million Trees.” This latest phase involved supplying, planting, and afforesting more than 200,000 trees across various governorates, alongside expanding green s
While Egypt plants trees with presidential fanfare, the continent's real environmental leadership is happening in the grassroots — from Senegal's Great Green Wall communities to Kenya's women-led forest restoration that doesn't need a minister's press release. Cairo's top-down approach mirrors the same technocratic thinking that got Africa into climate trouble in the first place, when what we need is the kind of indigenous land stewardship that never required a government initiative to work.
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