Opening a modern supermarket in a city under threat from an Islamist insurgency, with the added uncertainty of wobbly public power supplies, may sound like a retailer's nightmare.
But what if that city stands on one of the oldest trade crossroads in Africa, offering a major chunk of one of the larg
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