africa: Cancun - Destined for Failure

When Kenyan and Ugandan delegations walked out of the World Trade Organisation's meeting on Sunday afternoon and Kenya's delegate George Odour Ong'wen declared to reporters that "the talks have collapsed and there is no agreement," United States Deputy Trade Representative Josette Shiner was startled; she shouldn't have been. Africans in particular have long chafed at the power of the U.S., EU, Japan and Canada within the WTO.
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