Plans to 'Revitalise' Africa's Textile Industry
Close to 10 percent of the world's cotton comes from Africa. Most of this cotton is then taken to Asia for further manufacturing. Could Africa's textile industry make a comeback, asks Andreas Becker for Deutsche Welle.
A cotton farmer
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Zimbabwe:
Zimbabwe Launches Cotton Export Strategy
New Zimbabwe, 28 September 2014
ZIMBABWE'S Cotton-to-Clothing Export Strategy was on launched last Friday with a view to boosting productivity and helping generate much-needed foreign currency for the country. Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Industry Targets 450 000t Cotton Lint
The Herald, 22 September 2014
Zimbabwe will launch its Cotton-to-Clothing (C2C) Export Strategy at the 5th Clothing Indaba in Bulawayo next Friday which aims to increase production of cotton lint to 450 000… Read more »
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Africa:
Africa Fashion Reception - From Bayelsa to Paris
This Day, 27 September 2014
After the successful hosting of the African edition of the Africa Fashion Reception in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, the event moves to the exclusive and prestigious Salle Wagram in… Read more »
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Kenya:
Kenya, China in Sh44 Billion Textile Deal
The Star, 5 September 2014
The Industrialisation ministry and a Chinese investor have signed a $500 million (Sh44 billion) textile plant construction deal. Read more »
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Mozambique:
President Guebuza Reopens Textile Factory
AIM, 2 September 2014
President Armando Guebuza declared on 29 August that the reopening of the Riopele textile factory in Marracuene district, 30 kilometres north of Maputo, will dynamise economic and… Read more »
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Zambia:
Textiles Revival Good
Times of Zambia, 9 August 2014
The moribund Zambia-China mulungushi Textiles (zcmt) in Kabwe is set to re-open after seven years of dormancy, following the signing of a 12-year lease agreement between the… Read more »
