We all need toilets – expert insights into what happens when there aren’t enough of them

By Anna Weekes, Environment + Energy Editor, The Conversation Africa

“Safe toilets for all by 2030” is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets. But, with just more than five years to go until 2030, the United Nations says the world is “seriously off-track … 3.5 billion people still live without safely managed sanitation, including 419 million who practise open defecation”. That includes millions of people across Africa.

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~	Public humiliation is still a common teaching tool in medical education. Here’s how it leaves patients worse off

~	I’m a children’s writer – and celebrity children’s books undervalue my craft

~	China's investment in agriculture in Tajikistan: A focus on growth and pesticide use

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