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Police Bans Street Selling in Banjul

Accordingto reliable sources, the police have mounted a street clearing exercise to stopvendors from selling their food items and wares in the streets of Banjul. Accordingto our sources, the police at Banjul station last week cracked down onvendors selling food items and goods in the streets of Banjul and confiscated their goods andtables for identification purposes at the court. When contacted, the police public relationofficer, ASP Sulayman Secka, confirmed the story as true, saying“Yes...

Errant traders feel the heat

One Ali Mbye, a Senegalese butcher who plies his trade at the Serrekunda market was recently caught selling a kilo of beef steak at D110.00 (one hundred and ten dalasis) by the the Community Assistant Group. The matter was reported to the Serekunda police station. The butcher, in an interview with the Daily Observer, expressed his regret over the incident. However, the Kanifing Magistrates Court, presided over by Senior Magistrate Abdoulie Mbake, last week Tuesday sentenced him to pay a fine...

Two Butchers Convicted

Following the presidential directive on the stipulated price of meat during the just ended Holy month of Ramadan, the courts for the past couple of weeks have spared no mercy on the butchers who failed to adhere to the price regulation of a kilo of meat. On 14th October 2008, the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court presided over by Magistrate Sainabou Wadda-Ceesay convicted and sentenced two Gambians Fatou Jeng and Essa Ngum to a fine of D1500, in default to serve one month imprisonment. According to...

UGANDA: Children eke out a living on the streets

John Kibwola, 14, braves the scorching afternoon sun as he sells his collection of plastic bottles along Acholi Street in the northern Ugandan town of Gulu. "It is from doing this that I get something to eat," Kibwola told IRIN. "I have been selling used plastic bottles and containers for the last two years.” He has been hawking the bottles since he left his village of Cwero, about 65km east of Gulu town. This was after his parents died in an attack by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)...

LIBERIA: Too many cooks

The shelves of Monrovia's premier bakery are lined with freshly baked bread, cream buns and iced doughnuts. A customer stands at the counter enquiring about a wedding cake while a baker in a white paper hat slides trays of warm baguettes out of the oven. The bakery is owned by a Lebanese company that trains its own employees itself. Thousands of Liberian refugee women were trained by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in pastry-making, baking and cooking during the country's 1991-2003...

How to start Selling on ebay to make money

Making Money Selling on Ebay for Beginners - AuctionBucket.com Ebay has been around for almost 12 years now (9 years mainstream). Every day people register and expect to make a lot of money on ebay as beginners selling their items online. 90% fail, because they don't have a startup plan. The biggest issue is not having enough positive feedback. Once a potential buyer sees that you do not have a high ebay feedback rating, they will immediately think that you are a beginner or even worse a...