Landlocked countries seek way out

Speaking this week at the High-Level Africa Regional Review Meeting to address challenges facing Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC), Molebatsi said as a collective, landlocked countries have been experiencing a decline in their participation in international trade while at the same time facing difficulties from rising global inflation.

Sixteen landlocked African countries met in Gaborone this week as part of a greater endeavour to explore ways out of the trade hurdles impeding LLDCs from fully enjoying the benefits of international trade. Despite global technological improvement in sectors such as transport, LLDCs continue to face structural challenges to accessing world markets.