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30 October 2016
Iwacu (Bujumbura)
Burundi: Cholera Worsens the Living Conditions of Kinogono Pit-Dwellers
By Innocent Habonimana
Most of the busy tradesmen and women who pass through Minago every day, a rural area in the province of Rumonge, south west of Burundi, have no clue that a community of their countrymen live in dreadful depravation beneath their feet. Out of sight of the road, at the bottom of a steep bank close to the shore of Lake Tanganyika, about 300 people live in a literal pit called Kinogono, without clean water, shelter or food. Now, the small community of pit-dwellers is battling a new outbreak of cholera, which has affected five to date.
The people of Kinogono rely on water from Lake Tanganyika that is contaminated with human waste...
30 October 2016
Iwacu (Bujumbura)
Burundi: Cholera Worsens the Living Conditions of Kinogono Pit-Dwellers
By Innocent Habonimana
Most of the busy tradesmen and women who pass through Minago every day, a rural area in the province of Rumonge, south west of Burundi, have no clue that a community of their countrymen live in dreadful depravation beneath their feet. Out of sight of the road, at the bottom of a steep bank close to the shore of Lake Tanganyika, about 300 people live in a literal pit called Kinogono, without clean water, shelter or food. Now, the small community of pit-dwellers is battling a new outbreak of cholera, which has affected five to date.
The people of Kinogono rely on water from Lake Tanganyika that is contaminated with human waste...