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Uganda, Nyadri district: schools without pit latrines will not open for first term
16 Feb 09
Education officials in Nyadri district have said schools with dilapidated pit-latrines will not open for the first term.The district inspector of schools, Flavia Droti, said six schools had so far been identified and they would only open after new latrines had been constructed.
Nigeria, Edo State: police hold water board general manager over N2.4 billion fraud
16 Feb 09
General Manager of the Edo State Water Board, Engineer Monday Umane and four other top staff have been arrested by the Edo State police command over a missing N2.4 billion including an US$ 18 million Paris Club facility to boost water supply to various parts of the state.
Chad: banging pots and pans to end charcoal ban
16 Feb 09
Prohibited by the authorities from demonstrating in the streets, Chadians banged their utensils from inside their homes to protest the government’s ban on charcoal, which has people in a panic, burning roots, furniture and anything they can find in order to boil water and cook.
Ghana: toilet wars
16 Feb 09
There was uproar at the infant Ashaiman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) near Tema when angry National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters descended on the facility seeking the transfer of the ownership of toilets in the sprawling township.
Liberia: invading caterpillars pollute water and destroy crops, national emergency declared
03 Feb 09
Millions of invading caterpillars have forced thousands of Liberians to flee their homes and the situation is “getting worse”. The caterpillars have destroyed crops, entered houses and contaminated water sources with their faeces.
Africa: Lake Victoria Region Water and Sanitation Initiative
03 Feb 09
SNV, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Gender and Water Alliance and UNESCO-IHE have entered into a partnership arrangement with UN-Habitat for the implementation of the capacity building component of the Lake Victoria Region Water and Sanitation (LVWATSAN) Initiative.
Mozambique: “model institutions” in hygiene campaign
02 Feb 09
According to Health Minister Ivo Garrido, the national hygiene and sanitation campaign, launched at the beginning of 2008, has succeeded in creating a series of “model institutions” across Mozambique. The idea is that these model institutions would set an example of good hygiene and sanitation to be followed by others.
Zimbabwe: worst-case cholera scenario getting worse
02 Feb 09
By 28 January 2009, the cholera death toll in Zimbabwe had climbed to 3,028. The US-based International medical rights organisation, Physicians for Human Rights, have labeled Zimbabwe’s health crisis a ‘crime’ that should be the subject of an investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Tanzania: Biwater fails in 2006 damages claim
10 Sep 08
A British water company thrown out of Tanzania over a bungled privatisation deal has failed in its bid to win up to £10m in damages.
Sierra Leone: ministry aims to introduce Community Led Total Sanitation
10 Sep 08
Most residents in Kenema city and those who are visiting the Maxwell Khobe street market known as Fisheries market, openly defecate in the Lambayei stream that runs across the city.
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