Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Human rights groups are pushing the South African government to do away with the sub-standard facilities in schools forever.

The darkening clouds are ominous for many in the urban neighborhood of Makindye-Lukuli in Uganda, promising rushing rainwaters stinking of human waste from overflowing septic tanks. As Africa faces a ...

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa (AP) — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the worst ...