Across West Africa, it is common for residents of border towns to cross to a neighboring country to make weekly, or monthly, household purchases.
Adoukonou Ekouya is as a local vendor at the busiest market in Togo, on the border with Burkina Faso. She produces and stores food products, a business she started eight years ago, but she has worked in farming all her life. She describes how her business drastically declined as buyers refused to travel the rugged road to reach her shop. […]
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