All-pervasive stench

In the townships, the water turns in a deadly cycle. Months without it mean that toilets are blocked, leading to people defecating in the open, everywhere, at night. At the same time, the pressure of the trapped sewage is enough to flip open cast-iron manhole covers and spew the contents through the streets, into people's yards. The stench of faeces is all-pervasive.

If you've already guessed that that's about Zimbabwe, you're not wrong. It's from a piece about the water crisis there. A long overdue conclusion from Kenya's prime minister Raila Odinga:

It's time for African governments to take decisive action to push him [Mugabe] out of power.