The cotton sector is central to Africa’s efforts in fighting poverty. It provides income for millions of people, especially those living in rural areas, and is an important source of foreign exchange earnings...

Ten years after Agoa was passed, opinion in US policy circles appears to be quietly coalescing around the idea that it has failed to deliver on its aim to grow Africa’s manufacturing sector. Agoa’s expiration, along with eliminating the comparative...

The Moztex clothing factory in the southern Mozambican city of Matola has announced that, since it began working in September 2009, it has exported about 120,000 items of ready-to-wear clothing to South Africa...

The recent revelations that the South African Department of Trade and Industry (the very same department that publishes restructuring policies for the textile and clothing sector) has allowed a Chinese textile company to carry the South African Bureau...

Can the African countries reach a consensus to adopt such a label and negotiate with its main trading partners to label clothing shipments “Made in Africa”...

African entrepreneurs need to realise that economic interactions are now filled with higher momentum for bilateral, regional and global treaties, strategic business partnerships and major paradigm shifts that tend to make ...

For the third year in a row, Mauritius ranks highest in the region on the overall regulatory ease of doing business for local firms, according to the Doing Business report released by the World Bank...

Africa trades more with the rest of the world than it trades with itself. Intra-African trade accounts for hardly 10 percent of the region’s total trade, compared to rates of 40 percent for intra-North American trade and about 60 percent for trade among..