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Bangui Central Market & Diamond Trade

The Bangui market is extraordinary — legal diamond and gold trading alongside bush products, traditional medicine, and the informal economy of a city that operates largely outside formal institutions

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Diamond and Gold Quarterly
The licensed gem dealers in the Bangui market trade in CAR diamonds and artisanal gold – the country's mineral wealth visible in small packages traded across a market table
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Bush meat and wild products
The market for forest products includes smoked bushmeat (legally traded species), honey, wild mushrooms and forest nuts from CAR's vast interior
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Traditional medicine stalls
Multi-ethnic Healers Sell Medicinal Barks, Roots and Prepared Medicines — Central Africa's Traditional Pharmacy Available in Concentrated Form
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Fabric and clothing market
West African wax-printed fabric, second-hand European clothes and locally made garments sold in a chaotic but navigable part of the big market
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Wood and forest products
Logging is CAR's other major export — the market features furniture, carvings and raw timber from the forests that cover the country's largely uninhabited south
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Market food: Saka-Saka
Cassava leaf soup with smoked fish – the Central African staple – is served in the market's food section alongside fried plantains and grilled captain fish from Ubangi