| LIBERIA: Disease rife as more people squeeze into fewer toilets |
 MONROVIA, 19 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Water and sanitation services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are getting worse as a growing urban population tries to squeeze more out of already skeletal services. On 19 November, World Toilet Day, NGOs are calling on the government to up its allocation, and on international donors to reprioritize funding to stamp out cholera and cut child mortality.
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GUINEA: Humanitarian update |  DAKAR, 12 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Six weeks after the deadly military crackdown on civilians in Guinea, families are still searching for loved ones, the wounded continue to need medical care and aid agencies are assisting state health workers cope with the aftermath, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Guinea.
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SOMALIA: Life getting harder for Mogadishu displaced |  NAIROBI, 9 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Heavy rain, lack of medical services, few latrines and reduced aid have worsened the plight of the growing number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) camping on the outskirts of Mogadishu, sources said.
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In Brief: Nine million Afghans living on less than a dollar a day - survey |  KABUL, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan’s new National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA).
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KENYA: Replacing the bucket latrine |  WAJIR EAST, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Africa) - The sound of the evening bell at a local boarding high-school in Wajir, in the northeast of Kenya, did not always signal the end of the day's classes. Instead it marked the end of the evening bathroom break as “bucket toilets” were emptied for the day.
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KENYA: Floods displace hundreds of families |  MOMBASA, 29 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - After days of heavy rain, flash floods in Kenya's coastal Magarini district have displaced at least 500 families, sweeping away houses and livestock, officials said.
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ZIMBABWE: Cholera returns and kills five, so far |  HARARE, 20 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Five people have died from cholera at two different locations in Zimbabwe, and 30 other people are undergoing treatment for the waterborne disease, raising the spectre of another epidemic.
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GLOBAL: Overlooked cures for diarrhoea |  DAKAR, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - For decades diarrhoea has been a stealth killer, claiming more under-five children than AIDS, malaria and measles combined, yet it remains a neglected disease, according to World Health Organization diarrhoea specialist Olivier Fontaine. "We made huge progress in the 1980s, but donor investment decreased in the 1990s as attention was diverted to AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria."
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CAMEROON: Cholera kills at least 51 in north |  YAOUNDE, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - Cholera has killed at least 51 people in the past few weeks in northern Cameroon, where health experts say safe water and proper sanitation are sorely lacking.
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GUINEA - GUINEA-BISSAU: Driving home the cholera message |  BISSAU, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Africa) - In Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, children go door-to-door counting mosquito nets, monitoring hand-washing and checking distance between kitchens and latrines. The activities are among efforts by health NGOs and authorities to fill the gap between cholera-prevention messages and behaviour, after a 2008 epidemic killed some 220 people and infected at least 13,000.
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