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It followed months of intense preparation by technical experts working with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...
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WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who has sought to stay neutral on the issue told the European Parliament's International Trade Committee on Thursday that 'getting the Intellectual Property rights waiver for vaccines will not be enough'...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
The finance summit has been prepared in close coordination with the African Union's special envoys for mobilising funds to tackle Covid-19 including: Tidjane Thiam the Ivorian former CEO of Credit Suisse bank; Rwandan economist and former head of the African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka; and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala head of the World Trade Organization...
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Vol 62 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- HEALTH
Now the lobbying by campaigners for vaccine equity together with Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom director general of the WHO and Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala director general of the WTO has scored an initial victory...
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The situation has led to calls for Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the World Trade Organization's new head to make her first action an initiative to set aside Intellectual Property patent laws to allow for greater production of Covid-19 vaccines 'for the common good' (AC Dispatches Rich countries slowly accept the pitfalls of vaccine nationalism & Despite denials vaccine nationalism is rampant)...
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Another more technical problem surfaced last week with the visit of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala the new director-general of the World Trade Organization to Abuja...
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Newly appointed World Trade Organization chief Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has made African access to the vaccines her first personal campaign a logical move given her previous post leading the global vaccine alliance GAVI (AC Vol 62 No 3 Okonjo-Iweala to take over as WTO chief within days)...
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Vol 62 No 3 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
But there is also hope that political changes in the United States could improve global trading relationships and boost a World Trade Organization that could be led by former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala if the US lifts its veto on her appointment (AC Vol 61 No 22 One last hurdle)...
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On 5 February the race to lead the WTO ended leaving Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the sole remaining candidate...
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It is thought in African regional health policy circles that if the former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is confirmed as the new director-general of the WTO she will lend a sympathetic ear especially given her current role as chair of Gavi (AC Vol 61 No 22 One last hurdle)...