Related Keywords: African fashion and design industry, challenged to take up garment manufacturing, EAC countries, East African Community, imported second hand clothes, job creation, preparing to phase-out, requires low level technology and skills, support industrialization, textile industry players
East African Community (EAC) countries – Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania, as they are preparing to phase-out imported second hand clothes by 2018 to support industrialization and job creation in the region, the textile industry players have been challenged to take up garment manufacturing that requires low level technology and skills.
