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In Senegal, old clothes get a new life for profit

China Daily | Updated: 2019-07-03 07:27

DAKAR - The market around Colobane Square in central Dakar has been a hive of activity since dawn as hundreds of buyers and sellers haggle over the latest imports from Europe.

Piles of designer jackets, shirts and stonewashed jeans vie with skirts and T-shirts - all of them pre-worn.

Sales of secondhand clothing, "feugue-diaye" in the Wolof language, is a vibrant business in Senegal.

In Senegal, old clothes get a new life for profit

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