Needed: Global drive to set agenda for 2b people for ‘minimally adequate toilets’
Since the sixth century BC, when the Romans began building their Cloaca Maxima (Greatest Sewer), a safe sewage system has epitomised civilisation. More than two millennia later, one Victorian novelist called a good sewer “nobler” and “holier” than the most admired Madonna ever painted. For sound reasons: the construction of...
Faced with crowded schedule Kenya Rugby Union wants relief from rigid Covid orders
Kenya Rugby Union wants the sports in general and rugby in particular spared stiff lockdown and curfew regulations to enable national teams, clubs and players to prepare for local and international assignments. The appeal to President Uhuru Kenyatta is informed by fears that the country, which is preparing for Tokyo...