New governors instated by Egypt's cabinet during a recent reshuffle face a number of challenges that vary from governorate to governorate. There are also a number of public crises facing the entire country. These include restoring security, confronting thugs, suspending land violations, resolving problems of water and sanitation, achieving factional demands and creating job opportunities. Giza Governor Ali Abdel Rahman divided the issues into three main categories: - Problems and issues of individual governorates; - Current and future development plans and how to finance them; and - Factional demands that differ between governorates. In the Egyptian capital of Cairo, also the country's largest city, the greatest challenges are slums, thugs, street vendors, developing the now-iconic Tahrir Square, and demolishing the headquarters of the formerly-ruling National Democratic Party to create public green spaces. Illegal buildings built by many citizens are also considered a major issue that the governor should deal with, while many experts say such buildings should not be removed, particularly under the current state of insecurity. In Giza, which borders Cairo across the Nile River, the governor considers water and sanitation to be the main problem. He said there are projects and plans aiming to achieve development, including the establishment of a city of craftsmen, turning the Dashour archaeological area into a tourist city, increasing services around the Grand Museum (planned to be constructed in the area of the Great Pyramids at Giza), and completing the final stage of the Ring Road, which circles the city. In Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria, illegal buildings built after Egypt's January 25 Revolution are considered the main challenge facing the city's governor, particularly as removing such buildings is difficult under the current circumstances in the country. Sanitation, housing and unemployment are also main challenges facing the governor. In Sinai, the top priority will be securing the borders and the path of the gas pipeline that provides Israel and Jordan with Egyptian natural gas. There have been five attacks on the pipeline so far this year. Sinai's challenges also include preventing the smuggling of drugs and weapons into Egyptian territories. Giza Governor Abdel Rahman offered advice to his colleagues in dealing with the problems of their governorates. He asked them to first determine the challenges and problems they face and to draft a timetable for dealing with each problem. During the second stage, Abdel Rahmah said governors should understand the details of their governorates' problems. They should prepare plans to deal with each problem and execute their plans through involving all authorizes and parties responsible for the problem in the final stage.
