Struggle continues for poor countries as curtains fall on UN trade talks

President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, receive copies of Nairobi Maafikiano and Nairobi Azimiyo from Alfred Suescum accompanied by Amina Mohamed Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary during UNCTAD Closing ceremony at KICC on Friday, July 22, 2016. [PHOTO: JONAH ONYANGO/STANDARD]

As curtains fell on the 14th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Nairobi, representatives of developing countries walked out of the talks still spoiling for war.

It took the negotiators three nights and four days of intense talks in which the rich countries under European Union and JZ pulled on one direction while poor ones under the umbrella of G-77 in the other.