© UNICEF/Karin Schermbrucke – Students wash their hands at a newly built handwashing point at a primary school in Pemba District, Zambia. New York, USA, 20 March 2023-/African Media Agency/A new analysis from the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, shows that some 190 million children in 10 African countries are at the highest risk from a convergence of three…
© UNICEF/Shehzad Noorani – Displaced children wash their hands outside a public toilet at a camp in Sindh Province, Pakistan.The triple threat was found to be most acute in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Somalia, making West and Central Africa one of the world’s most water-insecure and climate-impacted regions, according to the analysis.
As a result, these countries also carry the heaviest burden of child deaths from diseases caused by inadequate WASH, such as diarrhoeal diseases. For example, six of the 10 have faced cholera outbreaks over the past year. Globally, more than 1,000 children under five die every day from WASH-related diseases, with around two out of five concentrated in these 10 countries alone.
Some misguided people especially from the Nigeria media space would tomorrow tagged that 190m to be Nigerian children.
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