US President Donald Trump’s ‘shithole’ epithet should prod us into action

A mobile toilet. Economic growth holds the key to lifting poor countries from 'shithole' status

NAIROBI, KENYA: My first surprise when I came to Nairobi as a schoolboy, fresh from the countryside was using a flush toilet and not a pit latrine or a ‘shithole’ as some would refer to it.

The speed at which water came gushing out was scary.  By then, water shortage was rare in Nairobi; it was still the green city in the sun.