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Africa year-end review 2025: Stress-testing and strategic shifts
05 Jan 2026 03:44 GMT
… rules (including producer responsibility measures) and … firms are offshoring production to African countries with abundant … , while cotton processors are adopting Better Cotton Initiative (BCI … including effluent treatment plants, and testing labs …
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Beads, arms and cloth: How 19th-century African consumers shaped global trade
30 Dec 2025 22:27 GMT
… traders (from today’s Tanzania) on expeditions financed by … tangible product of this information chain.
Cloth
African demand … On the coast of east Africa and in Sudan, people eagerly imported … advantage enjoyed by western producers was dyes, especially after …
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Democracy’s Mask: Africa’s Struggle Beyond the Ballot Box
30 Dec 2025 15:03 GMT
… Guinea, Niger, Gabon, Sudan, Chad and whispers of attempts … far from the African soil. Africans are promised stability, … remain poor. Cotton is exported, and farmers sink deeper … leadership opportunities for young Africans to nurture homegrown solutions …
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Stephen Maosa: Renowned Kenyan designer wins prestigious RSLD Awards 2025
30 Dec 2025 14:45 GMT
… RLSD Africa 2025 celebrated African design excellence, also recognising … and footwear creations
Popular Kenyan accessories designer Stephen … dyed Adire, raffia, and cotton voile.
Inside the People’ … and skins into premium products through innovation, design, …
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Unlocking the Power of SEO for African Businesses: A Guide to Expanding Locally and Globally
28 Dec 2025 18:38 GMT
… Egyptian cotton, … Uganda
Top Keywords: Ugandan coffee, Uganda safaris, Buy property in Uganda, Ugandan fashion, Organic products Uganda … .
Industries to Focus On: Agriculture … African wine producer, or a Kenyan …
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Africa Must Industrialise Commodities to Capture Value, Afreximbank Says
28 Dec 2025 11:25 GMT
… States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which … crops. Long term low prices have discouraged replanting and new planting … .
For African producers, Afreximbank underscores cotton’s long … farming and ginning stages but rises to high levels in fabric production …
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Fashion industry shake-up lifts African manufacturers
26 Dec 2025 02:29 GMT
… immediate production.
KCB Group and the African Export- … buyers increasingly prioritise.
Kenya’s industrial strategy extends … in October, the Rivatex East Africa textile complex in Eldoret … rebuild vertical integration from
cotton growers to finished garments. …
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Uganda’s Two Tyrants
25 Dec 2025 15:46 GMT
… in independent East Africa. Bayindi businessmen ran the cotton gins, … , about increases in crop production and school enrollments, … African religion John Mbiti. Growing up in his native Kenya … neighboring Tanzania set his overthrow in motion. Ugandan forces …
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Land, Climate, and Conflict: Unravelling the Nexus in Sudan, Syria, and Morocco
23 Dec 2025 01:43 GMT
… subsistence agriculture to produce severe negative externalities (Republic of Sudan 2006 … for wheat and cotton farming (Werrell Femia and … -reliance on wheat production prior to 2006 … an overreliance on agriculture which cultivated the conditions for …
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Reclaiming Power: Farmers Grow Wealth, But Who Gets the Value?
21 Dec 2025 10:19 GMT
… chains for small-scale producers in agricultural value chains is … troubling reality: those who cultivate it receive the smallest … For example, in Zambia, cotton farmers have seen the value of … high-quality seeds and extension services.
In Kenya and Uganda’s …