The 8th edition of Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week (ASFW) will be held in Addis Ababa. ASFW is an international fashion week show and sourcing exhibition which focuses on African cotton, textile, apparel, leather, and technology products. It is anticipated that 200 companies from more than 30 countries will participate in the exhibition.
The second Africa-Japan Business Investment Forum which aims at solidifying business ties between Africa and Japanese launched Monday, August 31, 2015, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) revealed that African Bamboo PLC would enter Hawassa industrial Park to manufacture wall cladding and indoor flooring from bamboo resources.
African Bamboo, a company registered in Ethiopia and the Netherlands, has a bamboo based panel production project in West Arsi, Oromia Region. It received an approval of bamboo forest management for the project from the Environment, Forest, and Climate Change Authority of the Oromia Regional State in 2019.
Source: Sandokan Debebe's Twitter page and African Bamboo
Image source: Sandokan Debebe's Twitter page
The African Electronic Trade Group signed a $20 billion financial agreement with various parties to advance e-commerce in Africa, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the sidelines of the AU summit.
The African Electronic Trade Group, a multi-stakeholder group which works to implement e-empowerments with a view to developing electronic trade in Africa, is negotiating with the Ethiopian Government to open its East Africa Headquarters in Addis Ababa.
