Traders risk life and limb and as gangs fight for control of markets

Kisumu City manager Abala Wanga leads the exercise of evicting those who took away business stalls at the newly built Maendeleo market in Kisumu County. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

It is about 6pm, and a group of women are frantically calling out customers along the sidewalks, next to the main bus park.

The traders have turned the sidewalks into a busy open-air market, as all kinds of items are displayed along the stretch.