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Current Feed ContentPoor sanitation threatens public health6 in 10 Africans remain without access to proper toilet Sixty-two per cent of Africans do not have access to an improved sanitation facility -- a proper toilet -- which separates human waste from human contact, according to the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation. A global report will be published later this year, however, preliminary data on the situation in Africa was released today as part of World Water Day 2008. The Day, built around the theme that...NIGERIA: Tens of thousands languishing in prison awaiting trialAbout 60 percent of inmates in Nigerian prisons await trial, often for years, in unsanitary, overcrowded conditions, human rights groups and UN officials say. Of Nigeria’s 40,000 or so prisoners, 25,000 have never been convicted of a crime, and remain in prison up to 14 years without going to court. “In some prisons, the conditions of inmates awaiting trial are worse than the inmates on death row,” said Aster van Kregten, Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International and part of a delegation... |
