Industrial parks spreading across East Africa, with eye on economic growth

Chinese-owned Huajian shoe factory in Dukem, Ethiopia. Ethiopia has four industrial parks, leading the region in adopting the Chinese Industrial model. FILE PHOTO | AFP

It is around midday when I meet Idris Luwasa outside the cotton godown where he works as a records officer.

He is yet to receive any cotton lint from farmers for the day. But he tells me this is not new. Farmers no longer deliver the commodity as regularly as they used to.