Africa has spent decades lowering tariffs, building regional institutions and negotiating market access, but trade has delivered far less structural transformation than its scale might suggest. The continent’s challenge is increasingly not whether it trades, but whether its economies are connected deeply enough for trade to generate manufacturing, productivity gains and jobs.
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Kenya’s booming secondhand clothing trade is generating huge amounts of textile waste, raising concerns about bacteria, microplastics and public health risks.
Thousands of ants packed into tiny capsules have become surprising evidence in Kenyan courts.
Mozambican President Daniel Chapo visits equipment manufacturer SANY Group in Changsha, Central China’s Hunan Province, during his trip to China. Photo: X account of President Daniel Chapo
They are unusual pieces of evidence that regularly appear in Kenyan courtrooms: thousands of ants packed into tiny containers.
July 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Strider Technologies, the leading provider of strategic intelligence, has today published a new report uncovering how Russia is circumventing sanctions to access sensitive components through Indian intermediaries, exploiting the manufacturing, trade, and research ecosystems that power Europe’s relationship with India
