The indefinite strike by Ghana Railway workers, protesting seven months of unpaid salaries, is having a ripple effect on local economies, leaving food vendors and other small-scale traders in distress.
At the usually vibrant Tema-Accra railway station, the morning sun shone down on a ghost town.
The familiar hum of trains and the bustle of passengers were conspicuously absent.
So too were the majority of food vendors who depend on the daily traffic of commuters and railway staff.
