The trade and investment exhibition will run under the theme: “Rethink, Reimagine, Reinvent Value Chains for Economic Development”.

This year’s Fair has attracted more than 500 direct exhibitors, of which 71 are first timers.

Fourteen countries — Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Belarus, Britain, Indonesia and Japan — are expected to exhibit at the fair.