Ivory Coast's biggest city Abidjan with a population of six million has announced a ban on begging in a bid to combat 'urban disorder'.
Ivory Coast 's biggest city Abidjan with a population of six million has announced a ban on begging in a bid to combat "urban disorder".in all its forms and the use of handcarts are now formally banned throughout the district,” said vice-governor Vincent N’cho Kouaoh in a statement seen by AFP on Thursday.
The latest ban has come after mass evictions and demolitions of precarious districts and slums in Abidjan amid rampant urbanisation in the capital. Ivory Coast's biggest city Abidjan with a population of six million has announced a ban on begging in a bid to combat "urban disorder". Authorities arrested 22 people across four European countries on Thursday as part of a probe into a suspected 600-million-euro fraud of Covid recovery money, the bloc's prosecutor's office said.
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