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Africa Finance Corporation (AFC)

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    • AFC partners with Lagos Fashion Week 2025 to champion sustainable fashion, local manufacturing, and youth empowerment across Africa
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Africa Finance Corporation Partners Lagos Fashion Week 2025 to Drive Africa’s Creative and Manufacturing Transformation

The 2025 edition will spotlight circular fashion, responsible sourcing, and regional value chains, areas where AFC’s infrastructure investments are helping bridge Africa’s creative and industrial potential

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has announced its partnership with Lagos Fashion Week 2025, underscoring its commitment to empowering Africa’s youth and creative industries, as engines for inclusive economic growth. Africa’s apparel and textile exports is projected to reach$15b by 2030. As a key…

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA)

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Computer-Aided Textile Design Laboratory Established in Tunisia

Through this facility, students will gain the ability to design garments digitally, test prototypes in virtual environments, and reduce production errors before manufacturing

A “Computer-Aided Textile Design (CAD) Laboratory Establishment Project” has been implemented by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) in Kelibia, Nabeul Governorate, to enhance vocational training capacities and support the development of a skilled workforce for Tunisia’s textile and garment industry. Within the scope of the project, a modern…

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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World Cotton Day 2025: Transforming African cotton into sustainable trade

Across Africa’s cotton heartlands, farmers and artisans are navigating climate shocks, volatile prices and shifting global markets

On World Cotton Day 2025, held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Africa’s cotton producers and partners showcased how the sector is driving green growth, local value addition and sustainable trade, powering inclusive industrialization and climate-smart growth under the AfCFTA. Behind the progress is resilience. Across Africa’s cotton heartlands, farmers and…

Moscow Fashion Week

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From Africa to Moscow: The Russian Capital Emerged as a New Global Fashion Hub

For Africa, Moscow Fashion Week is more than an event – it is a gateway to international recognition, fostering cultural exchange and opening doors to global fashion markets

African designers are making a stronger presence on international runways, reflecting the continent’s dynamic and fast-growing fashion scene. This year, the global Fashion Week calendar began in Moscow, and African countries eagerly participated in the event. Moscow Fashion Week (https://MoscowFashion.ru/), held in early September, surpassed expectations, attracting global attention and…

BRICS+ Fashion Summit

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Africa Shapes Fashion's Future at the BRICS+ Fashion Summit in Moscow

This prestigious event provided an unparalleled platform for showcasing the ever-changing global fashion landscape, with Africa emerging as a particularly dynamic force

At the end of August, Moscow became a global fashion hub, welcoming industry representatives from over 65 countries to the BRICS+Fashion Summit (https://FashionSummit.org/)– the largest international event of its kind. This prestigious event provided an unparalleled platform for showcasing the ever-changing global fashion landscape, with Africa emerging as a particularly…

International Trade Centre
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From 8 to 30 bales: How climate-smart cotton farming is transforming lives in rural Zambia

This project, grounded in climate-smart solutions like Biochar and Bokashi, has enabled farming families to not only survive but thrive

Zambian farmers have doubled their yields and their incomes, using climate-smart techniques learned through a partnership among the European Union, African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP), and the International Trade Centre (ITC). Before 2021, many smallholder cotton farmers in Magoye and Ngwezi in Zambia faced declining yields, poor soils, and limited…

Afreximbank

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Afreximbank sees opportunities in the cotton sector as it hosts partnership’s steering committee

As a member of the C4+ initiative, Afreximbank is committed to supporting African countries to move up the cotton value chain – transforming raw cotton into textiles and clothing

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) recently hosted a two-day meeting of the Steering Committee of the Partenariat pour le Coton (PPC), a global platform established to support transformation and value addition in the cotton-textile-garment (CTG) sector in developing countries. With an initial focus on the C4+ countries (Benin, Burkina Faso,…

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Kanga power! Homegrown cotton for a homegrown economy – United Kingdom (UK) & Kenya launch Lamu cotton processing facility

A partnership between Kenya, the UK and private sector to deliver growth and jobs by reducing reliance on foreign imports, supporting women and the environment

The UK, Kenya, and the County Government of Lamu have joined forces to lay the foundation stone at a new cotton processing facility in Lamu County.  This four-way partnership between the UK, national government, local government and the private sector is a great example of the how the UK and…

Moscow Fashion Week

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Moscow Fashion Week: Creating Fresh Opportunities for Africa's Fashion Industry

The Julia Dalakian brand is set to present an exceptional blend of raffia and denim toughness with the grace of flowing chiffon and silky knitwear on the Moscow Fashion Week runway

From March 13 to 18, the grandeur of Moscow Fashion Week (www.MoscowFashion.ru) will sweep over the Russian capital, encapsulating the essence of the fashion season. This prestigious event serves as a global stage for African designers to unveil their creative prowess to the world. In addition to designers and fashion…

International Trade Centre
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Ferragamo for artisan communities in Burkina Faso to promote women’s empowerment through the Ethical Fashion Initiative

The goal of this multi-annual partnership, including the support of the European Union and its OACPS Business Friendly Programme, has been the building of West Africa’s first cotton dyeing factory, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Ferragamo has partnered with Ethical Fashion Initiative (EFI), a programme of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the United Nations’ small business agency, to address a critical gap in the artisanal cotton supply chain in West Africa, which has a predominantly female workforce. The goal of this multi-annual partnership, including the…