Sierra Leone: FCC Cleans Guard Street Market

The Freetown City Council (FCC) last Sunday cleaned the Guard Street market in response to complaint from residents that they were at risk of contracting malaria and cholera if nothing was done to keep the community clean.

Guard Street market is situated in the east end of Freetown and host thousands of traders and buyers from various parts of the city. But the community is most times littered with garbage, as flies and stench overtake what is usually a busy market area. It came as no surprise therefore that cholera and Ebola outbreaks in recent years claimed scores of victims in the area as a result of poor sanitary conditions.

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