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Inflation hits Sierra Leone's housing

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Freetown faces a housing shortage

Sierra Leone's housing shortage means continuing high prices for those seeking to buy or rent, made worse as building material costs rise.

As part of the BBC's Taking the Pulse of the Global Economy, the BBC's Umaru Fofana reported for Business Daily from Freetown in Sierra Leone, on the coast of the west Africa, on how the housing market is being affected by the global recession.

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First broadcast on 19 June 2009

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