Burundi: Cholera Worsens the Living Conditions of Kinogono Pit-Dwellers

[Iwacu] 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 h
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news