Africa

Climate Change Puts Africa’s Cotton and Textile Ambitions Under Pressure

Africa Elham Habibi - August 19, 2026 0

Africa’s ambitions to expand its textile and apparel manufacturing industry are becoming increasingly linked to a challenge that begins far before the spinning mill...

Africa

African Buyers Turn to Milano Fashion&Jewels for Premium Made in Italy Collections

Kenyan Retailers See Strong Growth Potential for Italian Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories As demand for premium fashion continues to...

Africa

Top 10 Leather Companies in Ethiopia: Leading Manufacturers and Brands

Ethiopia has one of Africa’s most distinctive leather industries, combining a strong raw-material base with tanneries, footwear factories...

Middle East and Africa

Global Islamic Clothing Market to Reach $153.6 Billion by 2033

The global Islamic clothing market is projected to grow from $103.5 billion in 2026 to $153.6 billion by...

Africa

AfDB Invests €200 Million in Morocco’s Future Workforce

The African Development Bank Group has approved €200 million in financing to modernise Morocco’s vocational training system and...

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

Ethiopia August 31, 2019

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 August 30, 2019

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 August 28, 2019

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 August 26, 2019

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...

Lankan Teejay targets new apparel plants in Africa, S Asia

Garment & Fashion August 23, 2019

Sri Lanka's fabric company Teejay Lanka Plc is hopeful of increasing sales from new apparel factories being set up in the South Asian region...

How Tunisian Entrepreneur Hasna Kourda Is Making Fashion More Sustainable Through Tech And AI

Garment & Fashion August 20, 2019

Hasna Kourda is making fashion more sustainable - but not in the way you’re thinking Hasna spent her whole life growing up in the North...

Mozambique looks for ways to monetize Textáfrica factory

Middle East and Africa August 20, 2019

Mozambique is looking for ways to monetize the facilities of former textile factory Textáfrica–Sociedade Têxtil de Vila Pery, according to President Filipe Nyusi, who...

African Textiles, Garment and Fashion Industry in Africa

Garment & Fashion August 13, 2019

History of Textile, garment and fashion industry in Africa the African fabric industry is very old, and dates as far back as 5,000BC when ancient Egyptians...

African Textile and Fashion Industry

Article August 10, 2019

▶︎ In Brief: West Africa's textile traditions span over a millennium, blending handwoven cotton, raffia, and wild silk with indigo dyeing, strip weaving, and symbolic...