As It Happens6:36Ghanaians call on fast fashion brands to step up after fire guts world's largest used clothing market Yayra Agbofah has barely slept since a fire ripped through the world's ...
A fire devastated one of the world's largest secondhand clothes markets in Accra, Ghana. The blaze started Thursday and destroyed as much as two-thirds of Kantamanto Market, which employs about ...
A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital Accra has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest ...
“Being a widow for the past 25 years, the secondhand clothing business has been my family’s only means of survival. The pain is just unbearable — my heart aches.” Kantamanto Market, the world’s ...
Kantamanto Market, which is home to over 30,000 traders, has been a lifeline for many in Accra's Central Business District. The government is yet to announce a formal response to the tragedy. ( AFP ) ...
The secondhand clothing market — which is the largest in West Africa and believed to be among the biggest in the world — has been “decimated” by the fire, according to Ghanaian-American non-profit The ...
The fire, which erupted late on Wednesday, consumed vast sections of the largest used clothes market in the West African country, displacing thousands of traders, disaster officials said.