African Business Stories (ABS) convened the third edition of its Roundtable Series during the 2025 World Bank Spring Meetings, hosting a high-level dialogue titled “Leveraging Diaspora Investment for ...

“I’m very concerned, the contraction in global merchandise trade growth is of big concern,” WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told reporters in Geneva. US President Donald Trump ...

Head of WTO anticipates roadblocks as ministers negotiate trade deals At a time when some experts question WTO's future and relevance, Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hopes the meeting ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, Director-General of the WTO talks to the media about this WTO's "Global Trade Outlook and Statistics - April 2025" during a press conference at the headquarters of the ...

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the weekend cautioned against the rising tension in global trade tariff. She warned that the escalating tariff ...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the WTO, told the Financial Times that growing fragmentation of global trade could divide the world into two trading blocks and “force countries to ...

WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala released the Global Trade Outlook at the WTO on April 16, warning of global dangers with the U.S. and China "decoupling" their economies. She said at a ...

WTO chief Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala has warned that US-China goods trade could be cut by 80 percent by their tariff war - Copyright GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/File ...

The Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said the US-China tariff war could cut trade in goods between the two economic giants by 80 percent, pulling down the ...

"The escalating trade tensions between the United States and China pose a significant risk of a sharp contraction in bilateral trade," WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said in a statement.