Africa

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

Africa Kohan Textile Journal Editorial Team - 0
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,...
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Africa

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...
Africa

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...
Africa

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...
Middle East and Africa

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...

Italian textile machinery companies on Cairo trade mission

Egypt
Representatives from 16 Italian textile machinery companies are in Cairo on Tuesday and Wednesday to participate in a convention and meetings with Egyptian companies. The...

Tunisia: 72% of companies do not plan to hire in next 12 months

Economy News
The Arab Institute of Business Managers (IACE) published on Monday, September 23, 2019, its National Report on Employment. The document takes stock of the labor...

CHINESE TEXTILE MANUFACTURER’S INVESTMENT THRIVES IN ETHIOPIA

Ethiopia
“The reason we chose Ethiopia as our first overseas factory is that it is relatively stable throughout Africa,” Zhao Jiang, director of operations of...

ASFW 2019 themed as ‘Sustainable Fashion for World Market’

Ethiopia
The Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week (ASFW) will open its doors to the entire cotton, textile, apparel and fashion industry from November 9-12 at...

GEPA focused on supporting Ghana’s textile exports!

Garment & Fashion
The Ghana Export Promotion Authority (GEPA) is committed to support Ghana’s textile industry. While substantiating on the same, Madam Afua Asabea Asare, CEO, GEPA, said...

US-Africa trade talks end in Abidjan, highlight AfCFTA

Economy News
Talks between African and US officials to review the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) free-trade deal ended Thursday in Côte d’Ivoire with no...

Japan’s efforts to support Ethiopian textile sector continue! Itochu to enhance productivity

Ethiopia
Though there are only 12 Japanese firms in Ethiopia (as of October 2017)  compared to 282 in South Africa, Japan has been lately putting...

50,000 new jobs! A new strategy to revive Uganda’s textile industry

Fiber & yarn
50,000 new jobs that earn a combined US $ 50 million every year! That’s what Uganda’s new textile development plan says. The new development...

Zimbabwe’s knitwear firm ventures into Zambia

Garment & Fashion
Navidale Textiles, a knitwear firm from Zimbabwe, plans to capture the market of Zambia. In the recently concluded Zambia Agriculture and Commercial Show (ZACS), Navidale...

Angola Concludes Recovery of Three Major Textile Factories

Economy News
The Angolan Government officially completed the recovery of three strategic textile factories—Textang II (Luanda), África Têxtil (Benguela), and the former Satec unit (Dondo, Cuanza...
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