From allAfrica/Written By Yves Didier Irakoze

After the Central Market of Bujumbura burning, businesses are moving to other parts of the city. Before the central market burning, this type of business was not common in the city districts.

At Bwiza, one of the urban districts in central Bujumbura,there is a shop retailingwomen’s clothes, shoes, handbags, jewels, nail polish etc. Asking the owner why her business is located here, she said: “I was operating this business in town at Bujumbura central market before it burned.I decided to run my business in this district because I have to work and earn my living”, she says.

She goes on to say that in town it is very expensive to rent space in order to run a business. However, here outside of the center it is cheap and it is possible to pay the house and have a little money left over to live from. But we only survive, I can’t say that we earn a lot, she finishes.

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