For residents of Daramola Abete, in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos, shot put is not the track and field sport that has delivered glory for many athletes on TV screens, but a less glamorous term for a ...

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 ...

*Every year, Nigeria rolls out new campaigns to end open defecation. Billboards go up, slogans fly, and pledges pour in. But for millions, the bush remains their only bathroom. Not by choice, but by ...

For Uganda, a country whose millions of citizens still practice open defecation, it must use students to go into communities and sensitize them against this vice, Dr. Moses Ntaro has recommended. Dr.

Stakeholders in Ebonyi state have called for concerted efforts in the fight to end open defecation in the state. They made the call during a two-day stakeholders consultative meeting on the review of ...

Based on the Joint Monitoring Program report (2014), published by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), 55 million people in Indonesia practice open defecation, making it the second highest ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every time she needs to go to the toilet, Shadima Irima recalls the moment Boko Haram militants stormed her home in northeast Nigeria and killed her ...

Wadi: Hundreds of students studying in residential schools under the Social Welfare Department in Wadi town faced severe hardship due to a water shortage, forcing many of them to resort to open ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Sanitation Court has convicted eight individuals for open defecation in parts of Accra, remanding seven of them into prison custody after they failed to pay court ...

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 ...