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Some of the rubble ready to be recycled at Medebar market in Asmara

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Markets in Eritrea are the place to go, not only for buying something, but also for seeing the dynamics of local life.
But the most special market I saw in Eritrea was undoubtedly the Medebar market in Asmara. Here, literally everything is being recycled in one way or another, and put for sale. It is an enormous open-air workshop, where the rhythmic banging fills the air, where men with masks solder pieces of metal together, where women paint newly fabricated furniture, where small boys sort out what, to the ignorant visitor, appears to be rubble.
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