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Kantamanto market: 60 percent destroyed in fire, over 10,000 people affected

It has been more than a week and a half since the fire broke out at the second-hand market Kantamanto in Ghana and the impact is becoming increasingly clear. An inventory by non-profit organization The Or Foundation shows that more than 60 percent of the market has been destroyed and 10,000 people have been affected. The 40 percent that was not...

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The Or Foundation donates one million dollars in emergency relief to affected Kantamanto market

American-Ghanaian non-profit organisation The Or Foundation will donate at least one million dollars to the reconstruction of the Kantamanto Market in the Ghanaian capital Accra, a press release from the organisation revealed. The market, one of the largest second-hand clothing markets in the world, was hit hard on January 1 by a fire that...

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Blaze destroys Ghana's largest used clothes market

A raging inferno that swept through the bustling Kantamanto Market in the Ghanaian capital Accra has reduced the sprawling hub of the country's informal economy to ashes, officials said. The fire, which erupted late on Wednesday, consumed vast sections of the largest used clothes market in the West African country, displacing thousands of...

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Ghana says reports of a "tsunami of textile waste" is inaccurate

Reports of a textile waste crisis in Ghana have been debunked by the country’s Ghana Used Clothing Dealers Association, who challenge beliefs of uncontrolled pollution and waste. Ghana is the world’s largest importer of used clothing, with most clothing ending up in Kantamanto in Accra, the world's largest second-hand clothes market. The...

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Ghana struggling with extreme surplus of secondhand clothes

It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana's capital Accra. Finally, their catch emerges -- a colossal barracuda and a less welcome bounty of bundles of discarded clothing. Where once nets teemed with fish, they are now tangled with tonnes of clothes thrown...