Massive cleanup under way in Ghana after fire destroys one of world’s biggest secondhand markets Thousands of traders face ruin after blaze razes two-thirds of Accra’s Kantamanto, which receives an estimated 15m used clothes from global north each week.
Thousands of traders’ stalls were destroyed in the blaze that started at about 10pm on 1 January and consumed large sections of Kantamanto market in Accra, Ghana’s capital.
Alhassan Fatawu owned a stall where he used bits of material from secondhand clothes to make and sell his own designs, and was notified in the early hours of Thursday morning that the market was on fire.
A huge cleanup operation is taking place after a fire devastated one of the world’s biggest secondhand clothes markets.
The Ghana national fire service (GNFS) deployed 13 tenders to combat the flames.
