A woman sits in her market stall in Cotonou, Benin amid piles of merchandise that she says she is struggling to sell, March 15, 2017. Picture taken March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Allegresse Sasse
COTONOU/SEME, Nigeria (Reuters) - On the outskirts of Benin's port city of Cotonou, thousands of used cars fill a vast parking lot but the merchants who used to come here from Nigeria to haggle for them are absent as recession bites at home.
Fréjus Fatondji works at one of dozens of car lots in the commune of Seme-Kpodji, wedged on a spit of land between Cotonou and the Nigerian border.
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