Niger Coup: Over 45 million cedis lost as trucks delivering onions to Ghana are blocked at Benin border

Niger Coup: Over 45 million cedis lost as trucks delivering onions to Ghana are blocked at Benin border
Over one hundred trucks loaded with onions are locked up in the border town between Benin and Niger following the border closure.

Each truck is transporting at least three hundred bags of onions at the cost of a thousand five hundred cedis each.

At least thirty trucks, each carting about three hundred and thirty bags of onions, are offloaded at the beginning of every week.

On this typical day at the market, five trucks are offloading onions at the market.

Some of the trucks are offloading the onions for local traders.

Mumuni Alambilla has two trucks of onions locked up in Niger

The onion retailers who have purchased the bags offloaded in the morning dip their hands through the onions poured on the ground in search for those in best shape.