Africa

Shared Utilities Help African Textile Hubs Expand Cotton Processing

Industrial parks in Africa are using shared water treatment, electricity connections and logistics services to reduce the infrastructure costs manufacturers face when establishing textile...

Textile Export Council of Egypt to Participate in GTR North Africa 2026

The Textile Export Council of Egypt (TEC) will participate in GTR North Africa 2026, a regional conference focused...

Comercial Arqué Sees Egypt as Textile Nearshoring Hub

Egypt’s established textile manufacturing base, proximity to Europe and long-standing cotton heritage could strengthen its position as a...

Nigeria Urged to Act as 180 Textile Factories Shut Down

Nigeria’s Federal Government has been urged to take immediate action to protect the country’s remaining cotton, textile and...

Can Africa Turn Its Cotton Strength Into a Global Textile Industry?

Africa is an important supplier of raw cotton to the global economy, yet it captures only a limited...

US-Africa trade talks end in Abidjan, highlight AfCFTA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

▶︎ 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...
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