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Development
Sharing A Stream With Cows: Nigerian Community Suffering Acute Water Scarcity
How best can one describe a disadvantaged community? Find your way to Bida town in Niger state. Tell a commercial…
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Humanitarian Crises
Conflict And Climate Shocks Exacerbating Cholera Outbreaks In Horn Of Africa – MSF
The Cholera outbreak in Eastern Africa may become even more devastating in the coming months, international humanitarian organisation, Médecins Sans…
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Development
Poor Hygiene Facilities Contribute To Low Attendance Of Girls In School
“I miss school for at least three days every month when I am on my period,” says Khadija Mohammed Ibrahim.…
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Humanitarian Crises
Namibian Government Puts Faith In ‘Cheap Solutions’ As Sanitation Sector Fails
Xhuka Shorty and his family are San, an indigenous group of people in southern Africa. Eight years ago, he and…
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Features
Namibia’s Sanitation Crisis Is Endangering Its People And Its Future
Every day, Natalia Shaanika, 15, escorts her five younger siblings across a busy road to a landfill site to relieve…
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Humanitarian Crises
Resettled Displaced People In Northeast Nigeria Lament Lack Of Water, Toilets
Lack of water and sanitation facilities in resettlement camps in Borno, Northeast Nigeria, is forcing internally displaced people being resettled…
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Development
‘We Depend On Rain For Water’: Residents In Ibadan Community Lament Scarcity
Salaudeen Safurat, 67, is one of many residents struggling to access potable water in the Mapo area of Ibadan, Southwest…
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News
IDPs Face Water, Food Scarcity Despite Intervention
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Gubio camp located in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in the Northeast of Nigeria,…
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Features
Nigerian Rural Community Stuck In Water Crisis. A Nonprofit Takes A Photo, And It Tilts The Narrative
Kemi Gbereogun, 52, scowls as she stirs dough into Fufu, a staple made from cassava, over a fire. She is…
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Features
Displaced And Neglected (3): ‘No Water, No Toilet Facilities,’ Lagos Monkey Village Evictees Cry Out
As the sun rose, three-year-old Taiwo ambled towards his parents’ shack in a slum at Odeniran, a community in Lagos,…
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