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The shameful call of nature in Tana River County

Salima Bamara shows a toilet women used in her homestead in Makere, Tana River County, before it was destroyed by floods in April. [Nanjinia Wamuswa, Standard]

Six years since she got married, Fatuma Amina is yet to step into a toilet in her homestead located in Makere, Tana River County.

As a daughter-in-law, and with the homestead having a single toilet, it is an abomination for her waste to mix with that of the parents-in-law. Cultural taboos also prohibit faeces of children from mixing with those of elders.

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