21
Aug
Onion traders are counting their losses as several bags of onion continually go bad due to the closure of the Niger border as a result of the ongoing coup in the West African country. Since the beginning of the unrest, onion traders particularly in the Ashanti region, who import from Niger, have experienced several losses due to the longer days the commodity takes to arrive in Ghana. In an earlier report, the traders noted that they had to sell a bag of onions which originally costs GH¢1300 for GH¢100 because they had gone bad upon their arrival in Ghana. The…