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Cooperatives help cross border traders stay in business during COVID-19

Cooperatives help cross border traders stay in business during COVID-19

VIOLETA GONZALEZ and TOYIN ABIODUN IT’S March 2020 and a quarter of the world is in lockdown. In the small landlocked African country of Rwanda, the borders are unusually quiet. Instead of the bustle of thousands of cross border traders carrying all manner of goods on foot and by bicycle, now only cargo trucks are permitted to ferry essential goods such as food items between countries. These measures, while necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19, have come at a great cost to traders, their families and cross-border communities. Most of Rwanda’s cross border traders are women and rely on…
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