[Kubatana.net] The Government has been urged to urgently address the high cases of continued open defecation in rural areas particularly in Matabeleland as the practice stand to derail the attainment of upper middle income status by 2030. Open defecation is the disposal of human waste in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water or other open spaces or with solid waste. The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC), in its latest report said open defecation was prevalent in all provinces with the practice