Kenya

Monforts Sees Strong Potential for Kenya’s Textile Industry Despite Investment Challenges

Kenya has significant opportunities to develop a more competitive and integrated textile manufacturing sector, but challenges ranging from energy and raw-material costs to infrastructure, skills and trade uncertainty continue...

East Africa’s Textile Waste Could Become a New Source of Industrial Growth

East Africa’s textile industry has considerable untapped potential to reduce manufacturing waste, improve resource efficiency and create new...

Kenya’s Cotton Revival Shifts Focus From Farming to Textile Manufacturing

Thika Cloth Mills says Kenya’s renewed cotton production could support a wider industrial value chain encompassing ginning, spinning,...

Kenya’s Apparel Industry Gains Trade Certainty as US Senate Backs AGOA Extension to 2028

Kenya’s textile and apparel industry is set to gain greater trade certainty following the US Senate’s approval of...

Egypt Establishes Permanent Export Hub in Kenya to Boost African Textile Trade

Egypt is strengthening its trade presence across Africa with the establishment of a permanent export hub in Nairobi,...

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Kenya: Maasai Mara University to Manufacture Reusable Sanitary Towels

By Francis Mureithi Menstrual hygiene is a national problem worsened by the taboos and stigma that surround menstruation. It is a conversation that every Kenyan,...

Kenya Aims to Produce 200,000 Bales of GMO Cotton by 2022

Kenya aims to increase its commercial production of GMO cotton by ten times next year. Its target is to involve over 200,000 farmers to...

Kenyan Eco-Friendly Footwear Wins Fashionomics Africa

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 29 March 2021 – The African Development Bank’s Fashionomics Africa initiative has named a women-led Kenya shoe design house as the...

EFI’s Accelerator Programme Selects Three Kenyan Designers

The Ethical Fashion Initiative – a joint venture of the UN and WTO’s International Trade Centre, has selected three Kenyan designers to participate in...

Africa Needs Focus on Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Skills

By: Dipesh Satapathy The textile and apparel industry in Africa has grown rapidly in the past couple of years, and is estimated to grow at...

Kenya: Count on Thika Cloth Mills for World-Standard Textiles

By Evans Ongwae : The Nation (Nairobi) For more than 60 years, Thika Cloth Mills Limited (TCM) has believed in the ability of local industries...

Kenya’s Kirinyaga county to revive Mwea Cotton Ginnery

The government of Kenya’s Kirinyaga county is planning to revive the Mwea Cotton Ginnery to support cotton farmers whose number has risen after the...

Kenya launches commercial growing of transgenic cotton

The Kenyan government has given 16.3 metric tonnes of genetically modified cotton seeds to farmers in the eastern region. The seeds will be distributed to...

Turkey, Kenya to Boost Trade, Economic Cooperation

Ahmet Cemil Miroglu says Turkey regards Kenya as reliable partner in East and Horn of Africa region Turkey aims to diversify and elevate its economic...

U.S. Donates Seed to African Farmers

The U.S. is providing 40 tons of Bt cotton seeds to a community in Kenya The U.S. is doing its part to help farmers in...
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