A group of East African countries, including Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Burundi, no longer want second-hand clothes. The countries are aiming for an all out ban by 2019.
In 2015, East Africa imported $151 million worth of used clothes and shoes from Western countries, many of they coming from donations to charities such as Oxfam. However, clothing just forms part of a long list of second-hand goods flooding the East African market: vehicles, hospital equipment, computers and even out of date medicines are imported from mainly Europe and the United States.
