ZIMBABWE’S premier trade show opened on Monday in Bulawayo, the country’s second largest city, with almost half of its usual foreign exhibitors absent this year. The number of foreign countries whose firms are represented has dropped from 28 last year to 17 this year, Graham Rowe, the general manager of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair said. The total number of exhibitors – foreign and local – at the six-day annual event is down from 820 last year to 670, with 167 international participants.