Africa's WTO Moment

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Africa's WTO Moment

[Reporter] The selection of the World Trade Organization's next director-general has entered its final phase, with two candidates left in the running: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance and economy minister and a former managing director of the World Bank, and Yoo Myung-hee, South Korea's trade minister. In view of the WTO's current challenges, Okonjo-Iweala is the better choice.

Source: allAfrica.com

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE Officer (CEO) of 963Img Radio and member of the Evangel Church in New York, Patrick Thorpe, has been very busy in recent times as he organises thousands of food packages for those hit hard by the COVID-19

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In his book, “Malcolm X: The FBI Files,” Clayborne Carson wrote about an October 1964 firsttime meeting between Brother Malcolm and John Lewis while both were traveling in Africa. The goal of Lewis and his fellow civil rights warrior Donald Harris was to make African students more aware of what the

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