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Baby Found Dead In Public Toilet

Thursday, September 24, 2009

A newly born baby was yesterday found dead in a public toilet, at the Brikama market. Speaking at the scene one Dumbuya, a passerby who discovered...

Sanchaba Youth Charged With Stealing

Monday, March 23, 2009

The Bundung Magistrates’ Court presided over by Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara on Friday 20th March 2009 heard a criminal case of house breaking and...

SIERRA LEONE: Communities take charge, one latrine at a time

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Kadiatou Samura proudly showed her pristine new toilet to her Member of Parliament, the leader of her chiefdom and the head of the UN Children’s...

DoSH-SW on Monitoring and Inspecting Food Exercise

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

In a bid to further strengthen and improve food safety and hygiene in The Gambia, the Health and Education Unit, in collaboration with the Food...

LIBERIA: No relief as most Monrovians go without toilets

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

With just one in 25 Liberians having access to a toilet, most use the nearest bush or beach, unwittingly committing what the UN Children’s Fund...

GHANA: Dodging faeces on the beaches

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

On a hot afternoon at Jamestown beach, once considered to be one of Accra’s most famous beaches, 25-year-old Francis Cudjoe and his three friends...

Mother commits infanticide

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

One Isatou Fatty was, yesterday, paraded before the Brikama Magistrates Court, for allegedly dumping her newborn in a toilet pit, after giving birth...

Judgement in infanticide trial

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Senior Magistrate Kumba Sillah-Camara of the Bundung Magistrates Court has convicted and sentenced one Binta Jatta, to a two-year jail term...

Mozambique: GPOBA Supports Water Services for Poor Households in Five Cities

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

The World Bank, acting as an administrator for the Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA), today signed a grant agreement with Mozambique’s...

Malawi Receives US$25 Million Additional Financing For Water and Sanitation

World Bank

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

The Government of Malawi and the International Development Association (IDA) today signed a US$25 million grant to improve water supply and...