Honiara Central Market wreck "MV Bikoi II" in February 2016. The Honiara City Council also warns vendors not to use the natural (sea) water source at the market: The Honiara Central Market Vendors’ Association ("HCMVA") was opened and registered in 2014, followed by the registration of a market vendors' association in Auki in 2015. Both were registered under the Solomon Islands Charitable Trust Act. UN Women cooperates with market vendors and associations of both the "Central Market", as well as with those of Auki Market. "HCMVA" formed as a result of initial workshops series by UN Women's Markets for Change (M4C) project, which
Honiara with the addition of many administrative buildings, the town began to develop and grow in population. Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting. A coup attempt in June 2000 resulted in violent rebellions and fighting between the ethnic Malaitans of the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF) and the Guadalcanal natives of the Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM). Although a peace agreement was made in October 2000, violence ensued in the city streets in March 2002 when two diplomats from New Zealand and numerous others were murdered. In July