Photos: Markets all around the World
A man buys meat in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, March.30, 2022. The UN has warned that more than 18 million people Sudanese, nearly half its population, could face severe hunger by this fall. (Photo by Marwan Ali/AP Photo)
A woman walks past shops in the ancient Moroccan city of Fez on June 8, 2022. Today, Fez serves as a monument to a highpoint of Islamic civilisation, the 13th and 14th centuries when Muslim rulers governed from Morocco to western China. (Photo by Fadel Senna/AFP Photo)
A fishmonger displays barracuda for sale at a fresh fish market in Limbe, Cameroon, on April 10, 2022. In recent years, Cameroon has emerged as one of several go-to countries for the widely criticized “flags of convenience” system, under which foreign companies can register their ships even though there is no link between the vessel and the nation whose flag it flies. But experts say weak oversight and enforcement of fishing fleets undermines global attempts to sustainably manage fisheries and threatens the livelihoods of millions of people in regions like West Africa. (Photo by Grace Ekpu/AP Photo)
A woman walks past a fruit vendor at a street market in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, May 11, 2022. High inflation in Brazil is eroding the buying power of consumers and angering potential voters, who fault President Jair Bolsonaro for not doing enough about it. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)
A woman waits for customers in a street market in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 20, 2022. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP Photo)
A vendor puts tomatoes in a single use plastic cover at a wholesale vegetable market in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, June 30, 2022. India banned some single-use or disposable plastic products Friday as a part of a longer federal plan to phase out the ubiquitous material in the nation of nearly 1.4 billion people. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)
People walk past a vendor’s cartful of fruit in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, July 9, 2022. The overall economy in Cuba remains dire, with long lines and rapidly rising prices for limited goods. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)
A vegetable vendor sits at a wholesale market in Mumbai, India, Friday, August 5, 2022.India’s central bank on Wednesday raised its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 5.4% in its third such hike since May as it focuses on containing inflation. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)
A woman wearing a burka walks through a bird market as she holds her child, in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 8, 2022. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear head-to-toe clothing in public – a sharp, hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. (Photo by Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo)
Ornaments for sacrificial animals are on sale, on a road side ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Peshawar, Pakistan, 06 July 2022. Eid al-Adha marks the yearly Muslim pilgrimage, known as Hajj, to visit Mecca. During Eid al-Adha Muslims will slaughter an animal and split the meat into three parts; one for family, one for friends and relatives, and one for the poor and needy. (Photo by Bilawal Arbab/EPA/EFE)
Iraqi people do shopping ahead of Eid al-Adha at Shorca Bazaar in Baghdad, Iraq on July 06, 2022. (Photo by Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
In this undated photo released by the World Wildlife Fund, a woman displays monitor lizards, squirrels and wild birds for sale at an open air market in Attapeu, Laos. A report released by the World Wildlife Fund, Friday, April 1, 2022, shows illegal purchases of wildlife online are growing in Myanmar in a threat both to public health and to endangered species. (Photo by K. Yoganand/World Wildlife Fund via AP Photo)
A man carries a sack of wheat flour imported from Turkey in the Hamar-Weyne market in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday, May 26, 2022. Families across Africa are paying about 45% more for wheat flour as Russia’s war in Ukraine blocks exports from the Black Sea. Some countries like Somalia get more than 90% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine. That’s forcing many people to substitute wheat for other grains. But the United Nations is warning that the price hikes are coming as many parts of Africa are facing drought and hunger. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo)
Vendor Aldemir Gomes da Silva holds up fish at the fish market in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, June 10, 2022. According with the police a wildcat fisherman is the main suspect of the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Pereira, and authorities say illegal fishing near the Javari Valley Indigenous Territory, where Phillips and Pereira went missing last Sunday has raised the tension with local Indigenous groups in the isolated area near the country’s border with Peru and Colombia. (Photo by Edmar Barros/AP Photo)
People buy dairy products at the central market in Chisinau, on April 29, 2022. Russia on April 28, 2022 raised the alarm over “acts of terrorism” in Moldova’s Moscow-backed breakaway region of Transnistria after separatist authorities reported several attacks there this week. Fears of destabilisation in the region grew after a Russian general said the Kremlin’s offensive aimed to create a land corridor through southern Ukraine to Transnistria. (Photo by Daniel Mihailescu/AFP Photo)