Africa Health Report

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health Children carrying jerrycans while searching for water before school in Kano.

Children carrying jerrycans while searching for water before school in Kano.

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health

Hussaini Ibrahim May 25, 2026

KANO, Nigeria — Before sunrise each day across Kano metropolis, thousands of children begin exhausting journeys not...

Drowning Megacity: Climate Chaos, Urban Neglect Push Lagos to the Brink Flooded streets in Lagos during heavy rainfall

Drowning Megacity: Climate Chaos, Urban Neglect Push Lagos to the Brink

Korede Abdullah May 2, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – As Lagos braces for another season of intense rainfall and rising flood risks,in this...

Africa’s Water Crisis: ECA Warns 200m Still Defecate in Open African communities facing water and sanitation challenges

Africa’s Water Crisis: ECA Warns 200m Still Defecate in Open

Mirian Gom April 30, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Africa’s deepening water and sanitation crisis has reached a critical threshold, with more than...

Lagos Orders Immediate Waste Evacuation to Prevent Flooding Risks Waste evacuation operations in Lagos to prevent flooding

Lagos Orders Immediate Waste Evacuation to Prevent Flooding Risks

Mirian Gom April 26, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Lagos authorities have ordered immediate evacuation of waste generated during the monthly sanitation exercise,...

Lagos Trains Health Workers to Boost Water Safety Standards Lagos health workers during water safety training session

Lagos Trains Health Workers to Boost Water Safety Standards

Korede Abdullah April 9, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – Lagos State intensifies efforts to improve environmental health outcomes by training frontline health workers...

Pain After Every Meal: The Hidden Infection Millions of Nigerians Live With Young Nigerian woman experiencing stomach pain linked to H. pylori infection and poor sanitation

Young Nigerian woman experiencing stomach pain linked to H. pylori infection and poor sanitation

Pain After Every Meal: The Hidden Infection Millions of Nigerians Live With

Oluwafunbi Bello April 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Misdiagnosed as diet or stress, a silent bacterial infection thrives in Nigeria’s water and...

Ekiti Prosecute 55 Residents for Violating Sanitation Order Ekiti government warns health workers and residents as Lassa fever cases and deaths increase across Nigeria.

Ekiti government warns health workers and residents as Lassa fever cases and deaths increase across Nigeria.

Ekiti Prosecute 55 Residents for Violating Sanitation Order

Korede Abdullah March 2, 2026

EKITI, Nigeria – The Ekiti State Government has prosecuted 55 residents for allegedly breaching environmental sanitation regulations...

How Weak Environmental Enforcement is Failing Abuja’s Streets Stagnant drainage filled with animal waste beside Kubwa Market in Abuja

How Weak Environmental Enforcement is Failing Abuja’s Streets

Oluwafunbi Bello February 27, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – By the time you reach the gutter at Kubwa Market, your body reacts before...

Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis Community water point in rural Nigeria highlighting WASH challenges”

Community water point in rural Nigeria highlighting WASH challenges”

Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Chukwu Obinna February 6, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – When Nigeria declared a state of emergency in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in...

Ogun Seals Abeokuta Fuel Stations Over Missing Public Toilets Ogun environmental taskforce sealing fuel stations over sanitation violations

Ogun environmental taskforce sealing fuel stations over sanitation violations

Ogun Seals Abeokuta Fuel Stations Over Missing Public Toilets

Korede Abdullah February 6, 2026

ABEOKUTA, Nigeria – The Ogun State Government shuts two fuel stations in Abeokuta for violating sanitation laws,...

Sanitation

Children of the Dry Taps: How Kano’s Water Crisis Is Stealing Classrooms, Health

Drowning Megacity: Climate Chaos, Urban Neglect Push Lagos to the Brink

Africa’s Water Crisis: ECA Warns 200m Still Defecate in Open

Lagos Orders Immediate Waste Evacuation to Prevent Flooding Risks

Lagos Trains Health Workers to Boost Water Safety Standards

Pain After Every Meal: The Hidden Infection Millions of Nigerians Live With

Ekiti Prosecute 55 Residents for Violating Sanitation Order

How Weak Environmental Enforcement is Failing Abuja’s Streets

Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Ogun Seals Abeokuta Fuel Stations Over Missing Public Toilets

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