Residents say the absence of sanitation facilities inconveniences women, children and elderly people. They claim authorities ...

One of the problems bedevilling Nigeria is the health effects of open defecation whose impact, according to available statistics, is huge. In this special report, OKWY IROEGBU-CHIKEZIE writes that it ...

By Vincent Ujumadu, Jeff Agbodo, Steve Oko, and Ugochukwu Alaribe States across the South-East are recording varying levels ...

In a bid to end one of Kenya's most persistent public health hurdles, the Government of Japan and UNICEF have inked a Sh515 million deal aimed at eradicating open defecation and securing clean water ...

Salako said this at the public hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Environment, on the need to end open defecation in Nigeria and increase the number of toilets annually. “The ...

Both males and females squat side by side without inhibition, some with cigarettes or sachets of hot drink, treating the ...

Ending the practice of defecating in the open, rather than in a toilet, will have “transformational benefits” for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, says the UN’s partner sanitation body, the ...