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.

Plateau State governor, Caleb Mutfwang said his administration has taken a firm stand against open defecation, saying, “I can’t stand the health implications of open defecation in my state.” He ...

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 ...

GULU - Gulu authorities have decried the rising incidence of open defecation in the city. Open defecation refers to the practice of defecating in fields, forests, bushes, bodies of water, or other ...

Though Kenya’s Open Defacation(OD) rate declined from 16.2 per cent in 2003 to 7 per cent in 2022, the country remains among 36 countries still grappling with this unhealthy practice. The 2019 Kenya ...

In the final part of this report, BOLA BAMIGBOLA writes that Owena Ijesa, Osun State is in danger of another epidemic as refuse dumps and open defecation dot the community, which relies on the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - One billion people worldwide still practise "open defecation" and they need to be told that this leads to the spread of fatal diseases, U.N. experts said on Thursday at the launch ...

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 ...

The Katsina Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State has flagged off a two-week intensive campaign to eliminate open defecation across 290 communities. Chairman of the council, Alhaji Isah Miqdad, ...

The Lagos State Government has intensified its enforcement against open defecation, arresting 46 offenders in a fresh crackdown across major commercial corridors on Lagos Island. The arrests were ...