{"id":3553,"date":"2019-07-04T07:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T07:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:23","slug":"porous-kenya-uganda-border-frustrating-plastic-bags-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/04\/porous-kenya-uganda-border-frustrating-plastic-bags-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Porous Kenya-Uganda Border &#8216;Frustrating Plastic Bags Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kenya\u2019s long, porous border with Uganda remains the\nbiggest challenge in the fight against smuggling of plastic bags, the National\nEnvironment Management Authority (Nema) has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The environmental watchdog has raised the alarm over\nrising cases of the crime, noting Uganda has not banned the products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nema&#8217;s Busia County Director Edward Menza said the porous\nborder has remained a major route for smuggling counterfeit and illegal goods\nthrough Sofia, Marachi and Mayenje estates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe state of our border in Busia allows citizens of the\ntwo countries to cross over with ease. This has in turn derailed efforts to\neffect the ban in the region,\u201d he said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/Plastic-bags-ban-faces-major-obstacle\/1056-5181172-k3fdcm\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation Kenya\u2019s long, porous border with Uganda remains the biggest challenge in the fight against smuggling of plastic bags, the National Environment Management Authority (Nema) has said. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}