Geneva — The World Trade Organisation's (WTO) bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty on Wednesday after the US rejected Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the global watchdog's next director-general.
Three WTO ambassadors, charged with finding a successor to Brazilian Roberto Azevedo, had decided that Nigerian former finance minister Okonjo-Iweala should be the next chief as she had secured wide cross-regional backing...
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