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Used Clothes Pile Up as Ghana’s Kantamanto Market Struggles to Rebuild After Fire

The Jan. 1 blaze destroyed much of the secondhand trading hub where many of the world’s used clothes end up.
An aerial view shows people trying to salvage items from the burned down secondhand clothing market at Kantamanto in Accra, Ghana, on January 2, 2025.
People try to salvage items from the burned out ruins of Ghana's Kantamanto used clothing market. (Nipah Dennis/AFP via Getty Images)

It was a blaze that left two people dead and destroyed the fabric of one of the world’s largest secondhand clothes markets. It also wiped out the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people in a matter of hours.

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