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West Africa: Region Ranks Lowest On Sanitation
28 Feb 08
West Africa is the worst sub-region in the world in terms of access to sanitation services, according to UNICEF Nigeria.Mohammed El-Fatiih Yousif, the Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene section, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Durban, South Africa.He said:” Only about 36 per cent of the people [...]
Ghana - Court orders plan to phase out carrying of human excreta
28 Feb 08
The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) three months to come out with a comprehensive plan to phase out the practice, whereby human excreta is carried by some people in society.The court’s order followed an agreement reached between Mr Stanley Amarteifio, counsel for AMA and Nana Adjei Ampofo, an Accra legal [...]
Bad sanitation holds back development in Africa
19 Feb 08
WaterAid has launched its new report, Giving sanitation the green light, at AfricaSan, Africa’s conference on sanitation and hygiene. The conference takes place in Durban, South Africa, from 18-20 February, and WaterAid’s Policy Officer for Sanitation, Oliver Cumming, will be posting a daily blog here.The paper charts what progress has been made and what [...]
Ghana: Water Purifier Launched
12 Feb 08
Vestergaard Frandsen, an international public health intervention company, in Ghana, yesterday launched an instant microbiological water purifier, as part of their basic efforts towards eradicating water-borne diseases in the country.The instant water purifier, which is known as the LifeStraw Purifier, is the third product produced by the company, which is used to purify water at [...]
Nigeria: EU Wants Gender Equality in Water Supply
12 Feb 08
The European Union (EU) has called for gender equality in water supply and sanitation sector in Nigeria.Head of Rural and Social Development Reform Programme, European Union, Daniel Plas, made the call at a workshop on mainstreaming gender issues in the water supply and sanitation sector, Thursday, 7 February, in Abuja.The EU-funded Water Supply and Sanitation [...]
School sanitation news: Nigeria, Namibia, Uganda
11 Feb 08
Nigeria: Lagos Set to Construct Modern Toilets Project in Public SchoolsAs part of its advocacy programme the Lagos State Government has disbursed the sum of N64.4 million [US$ 558,000 = EUR 385,000] for the construction of 23 modern toilets in various public schools within the metropolis.The toilets consist of four each for male and female [...]
Nigeria: Water Schemes - Sinking the People’s Hopes
11 Feb 08
For people of Chirimbi, Gana and Jamus, all communities dotted in Jigawa State, getting good drinking water has been life ambition.But their dreams, it seemed, are sunk with the holes drilled by the contractors. For, close to two years after the new boreholes were sunk and the reservoirs built, the villagers are still waiting for [...]
Scientists Without Borders: new network chooses Ghana as pilot country
11 Feb 08
Scientific organisations and researchers working in developing countries will be brought together through a network to be launched on 12 May in New York.The programme, Scientists Without BordersSM, is an initiative of the New York Academy of Sciences. It seeks to integrate the efforts of the scientific and health community to address global health, agriculture [...]
