Waiting for cholera season

Published 01. Apr 2019
Critical need for sanitation facilities in North East Nigeria.

Every year for the last ten years, deadly cholera outbreaks have erupted with the onset of the rain season in the Lake Chad Basin. This year’s mass influx of newly displaced people into already overcrowded camps, coupled with a serious gap in sanitation and hygiene, puts thousands at serious risk. If not immediately addressed, people are left defenceless as waterborne disease again will start to spread with the upcoming rain season in 2019.