African city mayors, meeting under the auspices of the African Water and Sanitation Association (Afwasa), have committed to ...

Open defecation has been a major concern in Nigeria for the past 25 years. As a result, Nigeria was ranked second amongst the nations with the highest number of people practising open defecation ...

He also encouraged the states including the FCT yet to attain the open defecation free status to take deliberate measures while supporting Nigeria to attain upon defecation-free status ...

Ibadan residents face cholera, dysentery, others over open defecation fields at Kudeti River•Berate government over lack of interventionIn this report, PHILIP IBITOYE examines the lingering effects of ...

Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, have expressed worry over the menace of open defecation across the state, calling on relevant authorities to curb the act immediately through massive ...

Turkana, Mandera and Migori counties have the highest number of residents who practice open defecation in fields, forests, bushes, lakes and rivers, and in open pits with no slabs– rather than ...

"I am moved by the fact that a child dies every 2 and a half minutes from diseases linked to open defecation. Those are silent deaths – not reported on in the media, not the subject of public ...

Open defecation Eliminating open defecation, a practice strongly associated with poverty and exclusion, is critical to accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG ...

The 2019 Kenya Population Housing and Census Report (KPHC) revealed that 85 per cent of open defecation occurs in counties such as Turkana, Samburu, Marsabit, Wajir, West Pokot, Garissa ...