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NAIROBI, KENYA: Most of Patrick ‘Moreno’ Osiro’s neighbours curse when the rains make the latrines overflow. For him, it’s the smell of money.
Osiro is part of a small army, known as “froggers”, emptying a growing number of long-drop toilets, or pit latrines, in Kibera, a rust-roofed informal settlement in Nairobi.
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