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...

Minister: We seek to revive textile industry, restore Egyptian cotton glory

Minister of Public Business Sector Hesham Tawfik said Sunday that his ministry continues carrying out ambitious plans to develop spinning and weaving industries and...

LONDON STARTS TO TAKE AFRICA SERIOUSLY

The UK has perhaps the widest range of economic, political, cultural and historical ties with Sub-Saharan Africa of any non-African state. Yet successive British...

EGYPT SECURES MAJOR INVESTMENT AT UK – AFRICA INVESTMENT SUMMIT

British Investment firm Actis pledged £3 billion ($3.93 billion) investment to a number of Egyptian projects. LONDON – Egypt secured a number of new investment...

GHANA’S GARMENT-TEXTILE MAKERS URGED TO GAIN FROM BREXIT

Ghana’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom Papa Owusu-Ankomah recently urged Ghanaian garment and textile manufacturers to take advantage of the opportunities in the...

ACIMIT Members to Display at ITME Africa 2020

The ACIMIT (Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers) has announced that an Italian textile machinery delegation will be on hand at the ITME Africa...

Saurer to present spinning and embroidery technologies at ITME Africa

As a member of the Swiss Textile Machinery Association, Saurer will give visitors the opportunity to learn about the company and to gain an...

Yoox Net-a-Porter appoints Nisreen Shocair as Middle East CEO

Yoox Net-a-Porter, the online luxury fashion retailer from Italy, has named Nisreen Shocair as its Middle East CEO. At Yoox Net-a-Porter, Nisreen will be instrumental...

Interview with Ketan Sarvaiya Director of Colorband Dyestuff (P) Ltd.

Could you please let us know more about COLORBAND Group and products, goals and success story? Colorband Dyestuff P. Ltd. is a dyestuff manufacturing company, with its...

ITME Society brings together African women entrepreneurs

A 3-day programme from December 19-21 commencing with B2B meetings for exclusive delegation of women entrepreneurs from 4 African nations looking at sourcing from...

Tunisia: handicraft exports should bring in 80 MD in 2019

Exports of handicraft products should bring in 80 million dinars (MD) in 2019, against 79 million in 2018, according to a document provided by...
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