Workers of a recycling center of second-hand textile of the French social enterprise Le Relais sort through bales of clothes in Diamniadio, Senegal on June 25. Photo: AFP The market around Colobane ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Secondhand T-shirts, jeans and dresses are piled high for blocks along the busy streets in Dakar’s Colobane neighborhood, where people buy donated European and American fashions ...

Every year a group of women in Senegal organises a clothing drive to donate items of clothing to women in prison. In Senegal, 3.7% of the prison population is made up of women. They often lack ...

Dakar, Senegal – The dusty air is filled with the sounds of car horns and shouting – “500 CFA [$0.80] for a pair of trousers!”, “300 CFA [$0.50] for a T-shirt!” – from all directions as sellers try to ...

During the holiday season, charities receive lots of second-hand clothes from donors in rich countries. Much of it ends up in Africa. As Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque discovered in the Senegalese capital ...

The market around Colobane Square in central Dakar has been a hive of activity since dawn as hundreds of buyers and sellers haggle over the latest imports from Europe. Piles of designer stone-washed ...

Piles of designer stone-washed jeans and jackets and shirts vie with skirts and T-shirts -- all of them pre-worn. Second-hand clothing, "feugue-diaye" in the Wolof language, is a vibrant business in ...

Workers at French social enterprise Le Relais' recycling center for secondhand clothing sort through bales of clothes in Diamniadio, Senegal, on June 25. Mariama Darame / Agence Francepresse DAKAR - ...