Axum is located in the Tigray region in the northern tip of the Ethiopian Plateau. The town is 1,041km away from the capital, Addis Ababa, with a population of 46,887. The number of Open Defecation is only 4%. Nevertheless, none of the city's excreta is delivered to a treatment plant. Therefore, only 22% of the city's excreta is safely managed, while 78% is unsafely managed.
Veses, O., Dinku, H., Evans, B., Peal, A. (2016). SFD Report - Axum, Ethiopia SFD Promotion Initiative University of Leeds, United Kingdom
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