The Director General of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has tasked African leaders to look inward for ...

Look within to uplift the lots of your people instead of looking increasingly for help from where help is drying up. This was ...

Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister who also has U.S. citizenship, took office in 2021 as the first woman and first African to hold the job of WTO chief. Her second term will ...

WTO Chief Okonjo-Iweala has urged members to engage in dialogue to address global trade tensions and strengthen multilateral ...

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister, starts her second term as head of the global trade watchdog this year at a time when Trump's tariff threats have ...

Iweala, has called on African leaders to stop relying on foreign aids and focus on mobilising domestic resources.

African leaders must attract investment and mobilise resources to survive contemporary social and economic realities ...

Director General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has urged African leaders to look beyond soliciting ...

Okonjo-Iweala drew parallels to the 1930s when retaliatory tariffs worsened the Great Depression. “If we spiral into tit-for-tat retaliation, global GDP losses could reach double digits.

JOHANNESBURG: China firmly supports the free trade system with the World Trade Organization (WTO) at its core and will ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In an interview recorded before President Trump hit China, Mexico and Canada with steep tariffs that ...

The developmental economist said Africa really needs to change its mindset and see opportunities amid the seeming challenge.