(Business in Cameroon) - Defending its 2017 budget in front of the members of the Finance Commission of the Parliament, on 24 November 2016, the Cameroonian Minister of Commerce, Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana, revealed that the government will launch the International Business and Commerce Fair of Douala, which will take place every 2 years in the economic capital of the country.
Though he did not specify the date when the first edition of this new business event would take place, Minister Mbarga Atangana highlighted that this economic event will now alternate with the enterprise-focused show called Promote, presented as the biggest meeting of economic operators in Central Africa.
To make possible the organisation of the first edition of the International Business and Commerce Fair of Douala, we learned, the 2017 budget of the Ministry of Commerce proposed for approval by the MPs, was increased by over FCfa 2 billion.
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