“We are not criminals”: Uganda’s street traders treated “like animals” in major crackdown
LIAM TAYLOR, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on claims of poor treatment and a lack of regulation amid a controversial crackdown on street vendors in the Ugandan capital…
Air pollution: Indian workers blind to toxic risks in the world’s “most polluted” city
ANNIE BANERJI reports from Bhiwadi in India, named as world’s worst city for air pollution…
Heirs step up as COVID deaths rock Bangkok’s famous street-food stalls
Bangkok, ThailandReuters Each morning, Adulwitch Tangsupmanee brings a cart of crispy pork belly to a run-down cinema in Bangkok’s Chinatown and sets up the same street-food stall his internationally renowned father ran for nearly 50 years before dying of COVID-19 in July. While aromatic pork broth simmers, Adulwitch carefully places a framed picture of his […]
Child labour: Pandemic pushes more young vendors onto Central African Republic’s streets
INES KPAKOLA, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerabated the issue of child labour in the Central African Republic…
Kabul evicts street vendors in “discipline” drive
Kabul, AfghanistanThomson Reuters Foundation Kabul is evicting thousands of roadside vendors, destroying pushcarts and removing hoardings as part of an ambitious drive to instill “urban discipline” in the chaotic Afghan capital. Since Saturday, armed police and city authorities have removed thousands of merchants who crowd the narrow streets with carts to hawk everything from drinks […]
Financial insecurity: Indian street vendors “shattered” as coronavirus wrecks trade
ANNIE BANERJI, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the plight of street vendors impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in India…
Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors’ income, health
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Street vendors in India are suffering from lower earnings and ill health as they lose access to shade in cities where trees are felled to make way for construction, researchers said on Thursday. As deadly heatwaves become more frequent in tropical countries such as India, loss of shade can severely affect […]
“Dying of hunger”: Zimbabwe street vendors hit by coronavirus clampdown
TONDERAYI MUKEREDZI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from the capital of Harare…
Traditional markets blamed for virus outbreak are lifeline for Asia’s poor
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Millions of poor farmers and workers will lose access to a cheap and easy way to buy and sell fresh food if Asian cities clamp down on traditional wet markets in the wake of the deadly coronavirus outbreak, analysts warned on Friday. Wet markets, which are a series of stalls that […]
Delhi hawkers to be free from threat of eviction after five-year delay
Mumbai, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Delhi is set to become the first Indian city to fully implement a law that protects street vendors against the threat of eviction, authorities in the capital said on Thursday, five years after the landmark legislation was first introduced. Delhi government officials have set up Town Vending Committees, which will survey […]