The Swachh Bharat mission, launched in 2014, was an ambitious effort to stop open defecation. It's far from reaching that goal. Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, ...

According to United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) figures, about 46 million Nigerians practice open defecation. This statistics puts Nigeria second after India in the world ranking of countries with ...

Today is World Toilet Day. Do you have one or do you defecate in open spaces? If you resort to open defecation, you contribute to the country’s health challenges. Our resolve to eliminate open ...

With Nigeria ranking second among countries with the worst open defecation practices, the Federal Government has launched a new campaign to bring about behaviour change and sensitise the public on the ...

Open defecation Eliminating open defecation, a practice strongly associated with poverty and exclusion, is critical to accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) sanitation ...