Small traders in the Somali capital Mogadishu are struggling to recover the losses they incurred when Wadajir district’s Madina market was destroyed by fire last December, after reopening their shops in a new stone building.
Ali Osman Ali sells body lotion, olive oil, cooking oil and black seed oil. He lost goods worth $2,500 in the fire and has bought new stock worth $300, half of it using a loan.
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