Africa: Just Building a Million Latrines Won't Solve Sanitation Crisis

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The deadline for the world to meet its millennium development goals is now only four years away, yet in sub-Saharan Africa, there are still 570 million people without adequate sanitation, and it will be another 200 years before just half of the population of this region have access to a safe, private toilet.

In Nigeria where I live - alongside one-fifth of the continent's population - sanitation coverage stands at just 32%.

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