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New State-backed sewer to era of 'flying toilets' in Nairobi's informal settlements

An open sewer mixed with 'flying toilets' in Nairobi which has forced residents to consider 'flying toilets' as an alternative way to ease their urge. [File, 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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