In Yaoundé, fecal sludge flows through ‘Caca Junction’ streets

Mongabay
Jun 9, 2025, 5:39 pm312 ptsTop
Major streets of Yaoundé, the political capital of Cameroon, have turned into open sewers. Every day, hundreds of cubic meters of liquid waste — enough to fill more than an Olympic-sized swimming pool each a week — overwhelm the city’s only fecal sludge treatment plant. That plant exceeds its capacity by…

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