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World Toilet Day: What needs to improve

NGOs highlight problems of lack of latrines around the world

On World Toilet Day we look at one of the toughest jobs in the world and speak to Andreas Hueso, Senior policy analyst for the NGO WaterAid, about the importance of clean and sanitised latrines.

Should a presidential candidate have a mimimum academic qualification or a minimum period of work experience before they are elligible to run? That's something being proposed in the Gambia's draft constitution which will be put to a referendum. Our reporter Omar Wally tells us the latest.

We bring coverage from the University of Nairobi where students have been protesting against sexual harassment under the slogan (and hashtag) #CampusMeToo

Sierra Leone hosts its first beauty pageant in prison. We speak to the inmate who won the beauty queen crown but also asked: Is this glorifying criminals?

(Photo Credit: SAMIR TOUNSI/AFP via Getty Images)

53 minutes

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Tue 19 Nov 201917:06GMT

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  • Tue 19 Nov 201917:06GMT

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