> Retailers buy and sort through 55kg (121lb) bales of clothing – most of it is either “deadstock” (clothes kept in warehouses and storerooms for years but never worn) or items donated to charities or left in recycling bins. About 6m of the better-quality items are sold or upcycled in the market every week.
They're not only purchasing, but they've built an entire local industry around it. This is not "EU member states paying African countries to take in rubbish", this is African businesses buying deadstock and recycled clothing and making a living out of them.
If you want to know anything about Africa you have to read news from Africa.
No one in the west reads anything but the most sensationalist bullshit so you can't blame reporters for writing it.
The real story is just never interesting enough.
'"It's never too late to improve," says Prof Bengio of AI's current state. "It's exactly like climate change.'