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Kenya invites tanning groups and manufacturers to invest in new 'leather city'

16/01/2015

A ‘leather city’ has been earmarked for Kenya, part of a government-led initiative to boost the value of leather in the country, and it has invited tanning groups and manufacturers to invest. “90% of our leather is exported in wet blue form,” said the minister of industrialisation, Adan Mohammed. “What potentially we could earn as a country is 10 ...

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