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Workers in Ethiopian garment factories are continuing to earn chronically low wages and are discriminated against for union affiliations, a new survey has revealed.
The survey, which was led by the WageIndicator Foundation and the Confederation of the Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU), found more than 90% of workers surveyed across 52 garment factories in Ethiopia are earning less than the minimum living wage.
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The industrial park built in Adama, 100 kms east of the capital Addis Ababa, specializing in textiles and apparel inaugurated.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Lemma Megersa, chief administrator of Oromia regional state attended the inauguration of the first phase of the park.
The world was shaken by images of Ethiopian famine back in 1984, yet since then the country has achieved a remarkable turnaround to become one of Africa’s economic success stories in the volatile Horn of Africa.
Since 2005, it has achieved double-digit annual GDP growth according to some estimates, while the 8% preferred by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and some Western analysts is still more than respectable.
