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Vol 67 No 7

Published 3rd April 2026


Nigeria

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – fighting trade deadlock

When Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the World Trade Organization’s director-general, finally called time on its biannual ministerial conference in Cameroon in the early hours of 30 March, the sticking point was the e-commerce moratorium rather than her wider reform agenda. She tried to put a positive spin on the four-day summit by suggesting that members finalise an agreement in writing in the coming weeks, based on the draft texts developed in Yaoundé.

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