In response to the situation, the Deputy Minister has issued a directive to conduct an audit of both functional and ...

Casius Muma drowned while bathing in a pit latrine at his home. His heartbroken sister shared that the structure collapsed ...

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the worst problem.

A new study sheds light on the complex microbial ecosystems found in pit latrines, which are used by billions of people around the world. The findings are relevant for efforts to both improve public ...

Government officials have pledged urgent action to address collapsing and full pit latrines, along with a decade-long stalled ...

More than a year after the Ministry of Education’s survey of schools with pit latrines was made public, the promise to address this issue seems to have stalled and currently, according to reports, the ...

Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister Sello Seitlholo has called for an urgent intervention to address the issues of full pit ...

Last year, the heartbreaking list of innocent children whose lives were tragically cut short after falling into pit toilets ...

A 2019 district survey revealed that four out of the 64 inhabited islands in Kalangala District have no lavatory facilities. The compliant islands, according to the survey, include Bugala, Bukasa, ...

Operating in the narrow alleys of informal settlements in Nairobi and other cities is a group of people who play a crucial role in improving public health and sanitation. They are the unsung heroes ...

Migori, Kenya: The decomposing body of a man was recovered from a pit latrine in Oruba estate in Migori town. The man, in his mid-50s, had gone missing for a week before he was found in a 20-foot pit ...