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\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Risks Persist for Africa Amid U.S.-China Tensions<\/strong><\/p>\n WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warns<\/a> that while a temporary U.S. tariff pause provides short-term relief, significant risks remain. She said the potential is for a 1.5% decline in global goods trade if reciprocal tariffs are reinstated, which could adversely affect Africa’s export-oriented least-developed countries (LDCs). Okonjo-Iweala spoke of the need for tariff exemptions for LDCs to support their growth and create new markets.<\/p>\n UN…<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> \u00a0 Risks Persist for Africa Amid U.S.-China Tensions WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala warns that while a temporary U.S. tariff pause provides short-term relief, significant risks remain. She said the potential is for a 1.5% decline in global goods trade if reciprocal tariffs are reinstated, which could adversely affect Africa’s export-oriented least-developed countries (LDCs). Okonjo-Iweala spoke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:2bf73474cb6a7688e3118557ef685ef8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8142,257,254,1613,6637],"class_list":["post-196486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:2bf73474cb6a7688e3118557ef685ef8:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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