The Cross River House of Assembly has passed a bill prohibiting open defecation. The bill aims to outlaw open defecation in public places and encourage the use of proper toilet facilities statewide, ...

Residents of Oregun in the Ojota Area of Lagos State have raised concerns over the incidence of open defecation in parts of the community. They lamented that if left unchecked, the practice would ...

Drive through many cities across Africa at dawn or dusk. You will see something so normalised that many people no longer react. A man stands by the roadside, facing a wall, relieving himself openly.

Officials enforcing sanitation laws in Lagos State have apprehended five individuals during an early morning operation to curb open defecation and other environmental nuisances. This was revealed in a ...

• Investigations of anorectal structure, function and sensation are indicated for the assessment of patients with symptoms suggestive of an evacuation disorder and/or faecal incontinence that are ...

Colleen Stinchcombe is a health, environment, and outdoor recreation writer based near Seattle, WA. In addition to Health, her work has been published by SELF, Outside Online, Sierra Magazine, Lonely ...