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The announcement came during a meeting to review progress on President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi's directive to launch a "Greening Cairo" campaign, aimed at transforming vacant areas throughout the capital into vegetated public space. The session included Minal Awad, minister of local development and environment, Randa El-Menshawy, minister of housing, utilities and urban communities, and Cairo Governor Ibrahim Saber, according to a cabinet statement. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly directed officials on Monday, 7 September, to begin the "Greening Cairo" initiative, ordering immediate tree planting along the capital's Ring Road and other major thoroughfares, alongside a citywide inventory of vacant government land to be converted into parks and green space.
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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly directed officials on Monday, 7 September, to begin the "Greening Cairo" initiative, ordering immediate tree planting along the capital's Ring Road and other major thoroughfares, alongside a citywide inventory of vacant government land to be converted into parks and green space. According to Madbouly, agencies currently controlling undeveloped land in Cairo will be offered plots in new cities as compensation, clearing the way for a sweeping initiative to convert unused urban land into parks and green corridors, refreshing public spaces.
