Bells of epidemics toll on city garbage towers

Experts have warned of a looming outbreak of communicable diseases after towering heaps of uncollected solid waste dwarfed vendors in markets, choked shoppers and spilled to block some busy streets across Kampala’s five divisions.

Public health academics and practitioners put residents of Uganda’s capital on alert that the occurrences of cholera, dysentery and diarrhoea were more likely after City Hall stopped collecting garbage because it has nowhere to dump it.