{"id":325642,"date":"2022-06-12T13:32:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/?p=325642"},"modified":"2022-06-12T13:32:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T13:32:20","slug":"325642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This came during the minister\u2019s participation in the meeting of African Ministers of Trade that was held on the side-lines of the World Trade Organisation\u2019s (WTO) 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) at its headquarters in Geneva, which will be held from 12 to 15 June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She added that it is essential that African countries adopt a unified position that reflects their common interests within the WTO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Furthermore, Gamea emphasised the importance of the WTO playing an effective role in confronting pandemics by facilitating access to treatments, vaccines, and medical supplies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">She also pointed out the fact that African countries \u2014 after nearly two and a half years of the outbreak of the pandemic \u2014 have not seen any real results in this regard. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAfrica is also suffering from a lack of food security as a result of the global economic crisis and its repercussions,\u201d Gamea said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Moreover, she stressed that the WTO\u2019s MC12 outcomes should prioritise the development dimension and take into account the needs of developing countries, especially net food-importing ones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Additionally, she emphasised the importance of working to advance the proposal submitted by Egypt on behalf of African and Arab groups and developing countries to respond to the challenges of food security . <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The proposal aims to address food security through the development of a work programme aiming to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the Marrakesh Agreement on measures related to the possible negative effects of the Agricultural Reform Programme in these countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It also calls for reaching an understanding on the commercial aspects of finding a compensatory financing mechanism that guarantees these countries financing for their food imports and giving them the temporary right to subsidise production of food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gamea added that it is also necessary to reform the WTO in all aspects of its activities and work, including reforming the dispute settlement system to take into account the difficulties that developing countries face when resorting to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThe WTO should also substitute differential treatment granted to developing countries with an appropriate package of policies and tools that enable developing countries to achieve their development goals,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The minister also recommended the WTO strengthen the e-commerce work programme to narrow the digital gap between developing and developed countries and help integrate developing countries into the digital economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Furthermore, she affirmed Egypt\u2019s commitment to the multilateral trading system and its willingness to work with all member states to make the 12th ministerial conference a success in a way that helps advance economic development in Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Gamea also lauded the efforts made by the Cameroonian delegation in Geneva as a coordinator of the African Group in the WTO.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":319935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>- egy-africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- egy-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"egy-africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-12T13:32:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"430\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aya Abdulghany\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Aya Abdulghany\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/\",\"name\":\"- egy-africa\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-12T13:32:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-12T13:32:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6ceac9edb8a4f4971905ea65a568131\"},\"description\":\"Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1\",\"width\":768,\"height\":430,\"caption\":\"Egypt\u2019s Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"egy-africa\",\"description\":\"Just another WordPress site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6ceac9edb8a4f4971905ea65a568131\",\"name\":\"Aya Abdulghany\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3d34a871038964ff1f9085ae2941bc2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3d34a871038964ff1f9085ae2941bc2?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Aya Abdulghany\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/egy-africa.com\",\"mohamed nour\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/author\/aya-abdulghany\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"- egy-africa","description":"Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"- egy-africa","og_description":"Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.","og_url":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/","og_site_name":"egy-africa","article_published_time":"2022-06-12T13:32:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":768,"height":430,"url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Aya Abdulghany","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Aya Abdulghany","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/","url":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/","name":"- egy-africa","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1","datePublished":"2022-06-12T13:32:20+00:00","dateModified":"2022-06-12T13:32:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6ceac9edb8a4f4971905ea65a568131"},"description":"Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea stressed the importance of strengthening joint efforts among African countries to deal with the current economic challenges.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/2022\/06\/12\/325642\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1","width":768,"height":430,"caption":"Egypt\u2019s Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/","name":"egy-africa","description":"Just another WordPress site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/b6ceac9edb8a4f4971905ea65a568131","name":"Aya Abdulghany","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3d34a871038964ff1f9085ae2941bc2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f3d34a871038964ff1f9085ae2941bc2?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Aya Abdulghany"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/egy-africa.com","mohamed nour"],"url":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/author\/aya-abdulghany\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/nevine-gamea-768x430-1.jpg?fit=768%2C430&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/scF3XZ-325642","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325643,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325642\/revisions\/325643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egy-africa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}