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A man wears a face mask, due to the global coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, as he rides his motorbike along a busy shopping street in Dakar, Senegal. [Reuters]
Shoppers threaded their way between stalls hawking everything from watches to pigs’ feet in Sierra Leone’s capital on Wednesday, two days after the government banned large gatherings to combat the coronavirus but exempted markets such as this.
Buyers and sellers at the Abacha market say they can’t afford to stay away anyway. They depend on it for their daily food and wages.
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