Corn flour sellers in Waterloo hope for better sales from those keep  the Ramadan fasting month.

Millions and millions Muslims are fasting the whole 9th month in the Islamic calendar.

And more prayers are offered by Muslims this time, asking their Lord, Allah, for forgiveness.

But this year’s month, though sellers of corn flour expect bumpy sales in Waterloo market square, it never turns out to be so for them.

Memunatu Koroma (not her real name) was seen in the middle of Tombo Market in the hot-burning sun on Wednesday 12 March, 2025.

The sun was blazing like never before.

Scientists have long said the ozone layer is being affected by green house emissions. They mean the globe is warming.

Last year, was again, on record to be the hottest season ever in world’s climate history, and 2023 was also recorded as the hottest year, surpassing other years that have gone past.

This tells us that we are expecting every year to be having hot burning sun – 2026, 2027, and so on.

As the days get warmer and warmer, many people don’t get it easy as they drink more water to quench their dry up throats.

Under the Ramadan fasting especially in March this year, Muslims in countries like West Africa and Asia, may find the fast very hard for them as the sun blaze harder like never before.

And women, who are mainly the breadwinners at most homes in Sierra Leone and in Africa as a whole, are suffering from selling under the hot burning sun especially in this blazing March.

A lot don’t get much sales, and also prices for sugar have gone up 6 to Le7 per cup, in Sierra Leone’s markets, making it hard for a person to afford a cup of corn flour and a cup of sugar for breaking the fast by 7’O clock.

A group of corn flour women were sitting at a broken market square in Waterloo.

Now, only few of the grinding machines are here, it is due to the decline in business sales long ago even before the fasting month enters this year.

People in Sierra Leone especially the market women, men and young business people have been grumbling a lot about what they describe as “bad business” for them running for decades.

“Business has not been fine for us sellers since the past 10 years or even more than that. But now is the worse of times under this regime,” explained Memunatu Koroma.

By Africa 24 News