WTO members gather in Yaounde amid deep divisions and calls for reform

The World Trade Organization’s 166 members opened a key ministerial conference in Cameroon’s capital on Thursday, sharply divided over the future of the institution as geopolitical tensions, protectionism and the fallout from the Middle East war cast a shadow over global trade.

A Western diplomatic source described the mood ahead of the meeting as “tense”, reflecting wider fractures within the global trading system.

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