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Nairobi's new sewer plan ends 'flying toilets' in Mukuru slums

An open sewer mixed with 'flying toilets' in Nairobi. [David Njaaga, Standard]

For Catherine Nduku, a mother of three in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga informal settlement, the onset of evening used to bring a familiar dread. 

The family’s only toilet was a shared pit latrine across a dark, muddy path, a perilous journey she feared for her children.

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