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...

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...

STITCH & TEX EXPO-The Kick-off of Africa’s Ultimate Textile Technologies Trade Fair

STITCH & TEX EXPO - AFRO EDITION; will feature the new concept of organizing two consecutive trade fairs; The first trade fair is dedicated...

UAE ranks 3rd largest country in terms of apparel and textile exports and is among the largest sector of the Middle East

The fashion industry in GCC states continues to maintain a positive momentum attributed to key factors in influencing the market like robust economic growth,...

China’s Zhejiang province to Raise trade with Africa

The Zhejiang province in China plans to raise its trade volume with Africa to $40 billion by the end of 2022 to account for...

Cairo Inter Leather 2019

Cairo Inter leather is the only Leather exhibition in Egypt that is specialized in all Leather industries and technologies. Egyptian Chamber of leather has...

PROMOTING LOCAL TEXTILE INDUSTRIES IN AFRICA

TEXTILE INDUSTRIES IN AFRICA:::: It is commonplace in most African countries to see the circulation of what known as ‘'second-hand'' clothing. Many Africans especially...
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