Saclepea Refugee Camp — Papa Tokpa Sadia, 45, is all smiles as he picks up a snail and explains how it is extracted from its shell to prepare a meal. "Snail meat is very delicious and nutritious," says the Ivorian, who is learning how to rear and harvest the tasty gastropods.
Sadia is one of 30 refugees from Côte d'Ivoire, 20 of them women, studying to become snail farmers under a UNHCR income generation programme launched last year in Saclepea Refugee Camp in north-eastern Liberia. It's a business with bright commercial prospects, according to several experts.
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