RWANDA-KIGALI-RWANDAN PRESIDENT-TREE PLANTING

RWANDA-KIGALI-RWANDAN PRESIDENT-TREE PLANTING

(230528) -- KIGALI, May 28, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame participates in a tree-planting exercise in Nyandungu Eco-Park in Kigali, Rwanda, May 27, 2023. Rwandan President Paul Kagame, accompanied by the First Lady Jeannette Kagame, joined officials from the Basketball Africa League (BAL) as well as government officials on Saturday to participate in a tree-planting exercise in Nyandungu Eco-Park. This activity was part of the monthly community work known as Umuganda. (Photo by Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua)

Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19

STORY: Rwanda's Umuganda community work resumes, after two-year suspension due to COVID-19 DATELINE: March 28, 2022 LENGTH: 0:03:08 LOCATION: Kigali CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the community work 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PUDENCE RUBINGISA, Mayor of Kigali 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Kinyarwanda): NOEL NSHIMIYIMANA, Resident 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): VANESSA UMUTONI, Resident STORYLINE: Rwandan citizens on Saturday formally resumed monthly community work, locally known as Umuganda, after significant decline in COVID-19 infections, for the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March 2020. About 1,500 people gathered at Bumbogo, in a suburb of Rwanda's capital city, Kigali, to clear bushes, drainage channels and to sweep the streets during community work. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PUDENCE RUBINGISA, Mayor of Kigali "We've been joined by the specialists and also the directors-generals from different entities and organs like Rwanda Water Board and the water sector that has been badly affected by the

RWANDA-KIGALI-COMMUNITY WORK-UMUGANDA

RWANDA-KIGALI-COMMUNITY WORK-UMUGANDA

(220327) -- KIGALI, March 27, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Pudence Rubingisa, mayor of Kigali, takes part in the national community work known as Umuganda in Kigali, Rwanda on March 26, 2022. (Photo by Cyril Ndegeya/Xinhua)