Nigeria, April 25 -- The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Friday called for conscious efforts to deepen trade integration among African countries.

This is amid global uncertainties caused by the new tariff wars between the United States and other economies of the world, notably China.

Mrs Okonjo-Iweala gave the advice while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington on Friday.

The US-China tariff war reached its crescendo earlier in the month following the decision by President Donald Trump to slap a 134 per cent tax on Chinese imports as part of his "Liberation Day" that set a minimum 10 per cent levy on nearly all of America's trading partners.

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