East Africa: Mitumba Ban - a Plan That Will Soon Unravel

editorial

East African countries have just announced that they will be banning importation of used clothes and shoes into the region's market in order to create domestic demand for the local textile and leather industries and boost employment.

Banning the importation of used clothes is the five governments' latest effort to save an industry long viewed as extinguished.

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