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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...