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Rwanda is cracking down on the use of plastic bags by shoppers, the environment minister has told the BBC.
Drocella Mugorewera said that anyone using plastic bags is breaking a recent law on environmental protection aimed at cleaning up cities.
She says that people must use paper bags instead. Some shoppers, however, prefer cheaper reusable plastic bags.
Some Rwandans accuse government militias of using the law to steal goods being carried in plastic bags.
One woman told the BBC's Geoffrey Mutagoma in the capital, Kigali, that local defence staff had thrown the glasses she was carrying in a plastic bag onto the ground.
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