Mobilising Leadership: Key to solving Africa’s water and sanitation crisis.
The statistics are concerning. According to UN agencies, global water resources face significant challenges, including in Africa, where approximately 400 million people—almost a third of the continent’s 1.4 billion population—lack access to basic drinking water services. UNICEF reports that one in three Africans is affected by water scarcity, with the situation being especially severe in rural areas.
For Muyatwa Sitali, Acting Chief Executive Officer of Sanitation and Water for All (SWA), the crisis is not fundamentally about scarcity. It is about prioritisation.
