In May 2019 The Hindu described young Ethiopian graduates such as Melat and Rahel landing first jobs in Indian-owned textile plants, as New Delhi exporters looked at Ethiopia for lower-cost capacity.
Indian capital in Hawassa and other parks was part of a wider South–South manufacturing push that competed with Chinese and Turkish investors for Ethiopian labor and land.
Worker stories in foreign-owned lines show both opportunity and the thin wages that later fueled livable-wage campaigns.
Kept as textile FDI archive, the Hindu feature dates India’s garment footprint inside Ethiopia’s industrial-park boom.
Sources: The Hindu