World trade organization
Ex-world leaders urge US to waive vaccine property rules
In an open letter to President Joe Biden published late Wednesday, the group said it was "gravely concerned by the very slow progress" in scaling up global...
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SA and India lead calls for WTO to waive COVID jab IP rights
The intellectual property plan was filed by India and South Africa on 2 October and garnered support from a host of developing countries which - correctly - anticipated being left behind in the vaccination race.
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WTO needs to show results on economic crisis, vaccines: Okonjo-Iweala
Her immediate goals are to ensure vaccines are produced and distributed worldwide, not just for rich nations, and to resist the push towards protectionism that worsened during the pandemic, so that free trade can help the economic recovery.
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Path clears for Nigeria's Okonjo-Iweala as first woman WTO chief
The move marks another sharp split with former president Donald Trump, who paralysed the organisation and opposed the candidacy of the former Nigerian finance minister who was backed by many other countries.
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YONELA DIKO: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the WTO in the era of Trump
A WTO director-general from South Korea, at least in the warped Trump’s America view, would be much more easy to influence and push than a director-general from an African state like Nigeria, writes Yonela Diko.
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Ramaphosa: Africans must rally behind Nigerian candidate for WTO top spot
Nigeria’s Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is one of the two remaining candidates for the position of World Trade Organization director general.
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Nearly half WTO members agree to talks on new e-commerce rules
On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, 76 countries and regions agreed on Friday to start negotiating this year on a set of open and predictable regulations.
