{"id":229325,"date":"2026-05-30T02:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229325"},"modified":"2026-05-30T02:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T02:56:25","slug":"businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=229325","title":{"rendered":"Businesses Warned Against Unfair Trade Practices Amid Middle East Oil Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission (CCCC) has put businesses across the region on notice \u2013 exploiting the Middle East crisis through price gouging, hoarding, or collusion will not be tolerated. As rising oil prices and supply chain disruptions ripple through African markets, the regional trade watchdog is stepping up its oversight and signaling that it stands ready to use its full regulatory powers to protect consumers and preserve fair competition&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairobiwire.com\/2026\/03\/cccc-warns-price-gouging-middle-east-crisis.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission (CCCC) has put businesses across the region on notice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis.jpg",895,467,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis-768x401.jpg",640,334,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis.jpg",640,334,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis.jpg",895,467,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis.jpg",895,467,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis.jpg",895,467,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis-825x467.jpg",825,467,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/229325-businesses-warned-against-unfair-trade-practices-amid-middle-east-oil-crisis-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}