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The East African Business Council has empowered over 50 South Sudanese women and youth entrepreneurs on the workings of free trade in the continent. According to a press statement by the East African Business Council, the groundbreaking sensitization workshop was conducted by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). 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