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 UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Africa is hardest-hit by a global lack of basic sanitation that has left two out of every five people in the world without access to hygienic toilets, according to a new U.N. report.
The sanitation shortfall causes conditions such as diarrhea, which kills 1.5 million children under the age of 5 around the world every year, the "Progress for Children" report said.
Conditions are worst in Africa, and particularly devastating in Chad, where only 9 percent of the population has access to an "improved" toilet as simple as a pit latrine with a washable slab, according to the report Thursday by UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency.
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