Data from Bank of Uganda indicates that Uganda’s export earnings from locally manufactured goods have risen by 98.02 percent in the last 22 years to $391.55m (Shs1.4 trillion) ...

Uganda: Textile Firms Fight Mivumba to Survive. 2 May 2005. The Monitor (Kampala) By Fredrick Masiga. Textiles — For the last 20 years, Ms Jamilah Nalubega (60), has known no other business but ...

Uganda's Textile Industry Picking Up the Threads. 31 October 2017. The Independent (Kampala) ... Started in 2014 after a US$40 million investment in the textile factory, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a market of 40 million Ugandans, projections show we shall be able to create a market potential of 200 million metres of textile products per annum using a per capita demand of five metres ...

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 ...