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Africa: Do You Smile When World Toilet Day is Mentioned?
Gates Foundation, 19 November 2015
There is nothing glamorous about sanitation. Talking about faecal sludge can be something of a conversation stopper. The initial response to mentioning World Toilet Day is often a… Read more »
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East Africa: Lessons From Three Cities On Why Sanitation Is Such a Challenge
The Conversation Africa, 18 November 2015
More than half of people living in informal settlements in East Africa live in insanitary and overcrowded conditions. The number of people without adequate access to sanitation is… Read more »
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Africa: UN Urged to Set Up Special Water Panel
SciDev.Net, 18 November 2015
The UN should set up a high-level expert body akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to help modernise its response to water and sanitation issues, an expert… Read more »
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Africa: Ban Urges 'Open and Frank Discussion' On the Importance of Toilets and Sanitation
UN News, 19 November 2015
On World Toilet Day, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging broad action to renew efforts in providing access to adequate sanitation for all and work to… Read more »
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Africa: African Cities Aren't Keeping Up With the Demand for Basic Toilets
The Conversation Africa, 19 November 2015
Over the last 15 years, 68 million people gained access to improved sanitation in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa. This is a big achievement. But in the same period the urban… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Shame of Abuja School Toilets
Daily Trust, 18 November 2015
The World Toilet Day, coordinated by UN-Water is usually done in collaboration with governments and relevant stakeholders. Eventhough the United Nations General Assembly urged… Read more »
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Nigeria: One Billion Persons Lack Access to Toilets Globally - UN
Leadership, 18 November 2015
Some 2.4 billion people around the world don't have access to decent sanitation and more than a billion are forced to defecate in the open, risking disease and other dangers,… Read more »
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Cameroon: Public Toilets Still an Eyesore in Buea
Cameroon Tribune, 17 November 2015
Sanitation is necessary for healthy living. However, public toilets, which are supposed to ease things for pressed-up people, are virtually absent in major towns and public offices… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Simple, Yet Live-Saving - a Community in Zimbabwe Learning New Skills
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 13 November 2015
"We all had skin disease" remembers Annah Dumane. "We didn't know how to manage our waste. Our children suffered from scabies and people would sleep without washing." Read more »
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Nigeria: Open Defecation - Attitude and Not Infrastructure
Independent (Lagos), 5 November 2015
Open defecation is the practice of people defecating outside, relieving themselves in fields, bushes, open spaces, open bodies of water and not into a designated toilet. For many,… Read more »
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South Africa: Snakes in the Classroom
GroundUp, 3 November 2015
A school caretaker falls into a pit toilet and struggles for an hour to get out; snakes invade a primary school classroom: it's just another day in Eastern Cape schools. Read more »
Do You Smile When World Toilet Day is Mentioned?
While there is nothing glamorous about sanitation, and talking about faecal sludge can be something of a conversation stopper, the initial response to mentioning World Toilet Day is often a smile, writes Brian Arbogast of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Sadly, 60% of men and 40% of women do not wash hands after toilet use and, as a result, spread fecal matter from their unwashed hands to the most unusual places. Read more »
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Investing a dollar in basic sanitation can provide three dollars' worth of benefits, writes Bjorn Lomborg in Addis Fortune. Read more »
