Fact-Check: An edited image is being shared to falsely claim that the Canadian government had to put up posters asking Indians not to defecate in the open.

In a bid to end one of Kenya's most persistent public health hurdles, the Government of Japan and UNICEF have inked a Sh515 million deal aimed at eradicating open defecation and securing clean water ...

Progress, challenges, and the road forward in India’s sanitation mission ...

Based on the Joint Monitoring Program report (2014), published by UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), 55 million people in Indonesia practice open defecation, making it the second highest ...

Death comes for people in the strangest of places, in the most unexpected ways. And in 1016 CE, legend has it, it came for Edmund Ironside, king of the English, while he was seated on his toilet. The ...

On the first night the solar light came on at a neglected health post in Onicha Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, the glow travelled farther than expected. It lit the cracked walls of a ...

Cocoa-growing communities in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, forced to drink water from unsafe ditches and streams.

For over a month, broken trucks and filled dumpsites have stalled waste collections by the Lagos Waste Management Authority ...

Western "poverty porn" narratives about India ignore the country's rapid poverty reduction and economic transformation.

By Albert Oppong-AnsahNot too long ago, every morning would have found Linda seated next to her friend Ruth Odom, at their ...

A senior research scientist at NIMR, Emelda Chukwu, told journalists during the institute’s February Media Chat, that ...