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 ...

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. Second-hand clothing, ...

Fatima Ba compliments a customer trying on one of her designs — a stylish silk dress in ocher with a gold motif made from start to finish in Senegal. The founder of fashion label So Fatoo has made a ...

DAKAR, SENEGAL—The cloth started out pristine white. It was 100 per cent cotton, but looked like plastic — a nod to the Senegalese love of starch. Here, the beauty of a boubou (a Senegalese gown) is ...

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 - ...

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 ...