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Metropolitan Chamber Launches Trade Fair After 3-Year Hiatus

Feb 23 , 2023

More than 75 domestic and foreign companies are present at a trade fair organised by the Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce, three years after it had its flagship annual event held last.

Teshale Belihu, state minister for Trade & Regional Integration, opened the trade fair today, February 23, 2023, alongside Mesenbet Shenkute, the Chamber's president. The four-day fair at the Addis Abeba Exhibition Centre, near Mesqel Square, is themed, "Enhanced Export for Sustainable Development."

The 25th edition of the trade fair is relaunched after a series of events such as the pandemic and the civil war in the north brought a long hiatus.

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