Yaoundé’s thin harvest: WTO ministers meeting delivers little gains for Africa
2 April, 2026The World Trade Organization (WTO)’s 14th Ministerial Conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, 26-30 March ended with little to show for four days of intense bargaining. Ministers adopted two decisions on the integration of small economies into the multilateral trading system and on strengthening special and differential treatment in sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade.