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The acrid scent of burnt shea butter still clings to Ama Serwah’s hands six months after her life evaporated. “I stood right here watching flames swallow 20 years of work,” she says, kicking a twisted metal frame that once held her savings. “No water came. Only smoke and lies.” Her stall at Techiman Market’s Butubutu corner vanished on January 12, 2025—one of *seven infernos* that raged across Ghana in 30 days, devouring livelihoods while climate change turned neglect into catastrophe .

Over 500 traders and shop owners operating behind the Boss FM storey building in Kumasi are calling on the government, Ashanti Regional Minister, and relevant authorities to extend support to them following the recent fire outbreak at the Blue Bulb Market in Adum.