KENYA’S LEADING-EDGE AFRICAN OUTSOURCING SECTOR REELS FROM COVID-19 PANDEMIC
June 2nd, 2020
KENYA’S clothing manufacturing industry, which had been growing at the cutting edge of sub-Saharan Africa’s expanding outsourcing sector, has been punched hard by Covid-19’s devastation of the garment markets within the United States and the European Union (EU).
The London-based Overseas Development Institute has noted that “garment factories in Sub-Saharan Africa have started laying off workers,” and Kenya is no exception. Already, more than 100 garment factories at industrial estates in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and Machakos have temporarily closed, ...
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