by Michelle Anekeya | Feb 2, 2026 | News
By Antony Ambugo Kenya’s cities are growing at breathtaking speed. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people arrive in major cities and dozens of secondary towns in search of opportunity. Yet beneath the skyline of new buildings and roads lies a quieter, more urgent...
by Michelle Anekeya | Dec 8, 2025 | News
Africa’s fastest-growing cities are undergoing a quiet shift. The change is not driven by huge construction projects. Instead, it comes from stronger institutions and smarter ways of managing basic services. Across Kenya, Ghana, and other countries, utilities are...
by Polly Markandya | Dec 1, 2025 | News
A study supported by WSUP sheds light on why many utilities in sub-Saharan Africa continue to struggle to establish and scale safe pit emptying and faecal sludge management services, despite growing political momentum and new mandates for citywide sanitation coverage....
by Michelle Anekeya | Sep 1, 2025 | News
For more than three decades, Joyce Wangui has sold sugar, cooking oil, and mobile phone airtime from a tin-roofed kiosk in the winding alleys of Mukuru Kwa Njenga, one of Nairobi’s most densely packed informal settlements. Her kiosk, weather-beaten but orderly, is the...
by Michelle Anekeya | Jun 9, 2025 | News
By Claire Grisaffi, MICE CEng In many rapidly growing cities around the world, on-site sanitation is the norm—not the exception. With sewer networks often out of reach, safe faecal sludge (FS) emptying and transport (E&T) services are the first and most critical...
