Africa

Alt.FFF Launch Edition Puts Africa’s Materials, Makers and Fashion Value Chain Centre Stage in Accra

The inaugural Alternative Fashion Fabric Fair (Alt.FFF) officially launched on Saturday, 19 September 2026, bringing together industry leaders, creative practitioners, manufacturers, material innovators, designers,...

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...

Building Competitive Apparel Manufacturing in Africa: Lessons from the Factory Floor

Bernard Samaraweera explains why low labour costs alone cannot make Africa competitive — and why people, processes, technology...

Côte d’Ivoire Signs China Textile Partnership to Boost Local Cotton Processing

A new agreement between CCA-K and CCPIT-TEX aims to attract Chinese investment, technology and industrial expertise as Côte...

Türkiye’s Textile Exports to Tunisia Rise as African Trade Gains Momentum

Turkish exports to Tunisia increased by 9.9% to $720.4 million during the first seven months of 2026, with...

Ghana to pursue strategic industrial initiatives in 2020

Ghana’s ministry of trade and industry will aggressively pursue the implementation of its Strategic Anchor Industries Initiatives (SAII) aimed at industrial transformation of the...

South Africa’s Textile Industry Gains Momentum as SACTWU Welcomes New R-CTFL Masterplan

The Southern African Clothing & Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU), affiliated with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), has officially welcomed the signing...

Ghana to seize textiles sans stamped code, get law passed

Ghana plans to clamp down on textiles illegally entering the domestic market, according to deputy trades minister Carlos Ahenkorah, who recently said every textile...

Mahyco to expand cotton business in sub-Saharan Africa

Mahyco International is planning to raise $20 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). This will be part of the $26 million that the...

The stage is set for the 5th edition of Intex South Asia – The Biggest International Textile Sourcing Show of South Asia

Featuring over 200+ Suppliers from over 12+ countries/regions 100+ Indian Textile companies to exhibit with the latest product offerings Indian Textile Pavilions organised by FIEO, TEXPROCIL...

World Cotton Day—India to launch TAP for 5 African nations

India will be announcing the second phase of the Cotton Technical Assistance Programme (TAP) for Africa, Union textiles minister Smriti Irani said at the...

Belarus-Uzbek Action Plan for Textile-Garment Cooperation

A 2019-20 action plan to implement the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Belarusian state light industry concern Bellegprom and Uztekstilprom Association was agreed...

E. African bloc seeks to spur demand for local textiles

An East African bloc’s decision to promote the wearing of locally made attire and annual exhibits in the member states will help the garments...

Tunisia: “Meuble Interieurs” improves its net profit by 16% in H1

The company Atelier du Meuble Interieurs has published its interim financial statements as of June 30, 2019. These statements show a net profit for the...

Tunisia inks 3 cooperation agreements with Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal

Three agreements with Niger, Burkina Faso and Senegal were inked on Wednesday to design a vision on the bilateral scientific, technological and economic co-operation...
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