Though the raw material is one of the country’s key export crops, Uganda’s textile industry has struggled since the 1970s. The country had just two textile mills that could process cotton fabrics.

Africa Textile Talks 2025, the annual forum on sustainable fashion and textiles, returns and takes place in Cape Town from 29-31 July at the V&A Waterfront.Co-produced by Twyg (South Africa) and ...

Uganda wants to stop importing used clothes, which are extremely popular, in order to develop its textile industry. The decision is in line with the East African regional bloc's directive but has ...

The Banatex-EA (Banana Textiles in East Africa) project at Busitema University, eastern Uganda, has created spinnable banana fiber that can be used in textile production, presenting an alternative ...

A shake-up in the upper ranks of the government of Kenya may be a good thing for the country’s textile sector, which various officials had been promising to revive but in which there had been ...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has banned the importation of used clothing into the east African country, saying it stifles the development of local textile industries and that the clothes ...

Things didn’t work out quite the way he imagined. Though the raw material is one of the country’s key export crops, Uganda’s textile industry has struggled since the 1970s.

Though the raw material is one of the country’s key export crops, Uganda’s textile industry has struggled since the 1970s. The country had just two textile mills that could process cotton fabrics.

Every year, millions of hand-me-down T-shirts, jeans and dresses make their way from the US and Europe to East Africa. But the volume of donated clothing is becoming unmanageable, and critics are ...

By Sarah Kent, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, fashion designer Bobby Kolade moved from Berlin back to Uganda’s capital Kampala with the ambition of creating a home-grown fashion brand using Ugandan ...