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Ayenat Mersie

Commonwealth ends summit with call for action on climate change, trade

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations Patricia Scotland attend the Leaders' Retreat executive session on the sidelines of the 2022 Commonwealth heads of Government meeting at the Intare Conference centre in Kigali, Rwanda June 25, 2022. Dan Kitwood/Pool via REUTERS

The newly-expanded Commonwealth made broad commitments on Saturday to address climate change and boost trade, concluding a summit aimed at shoring up the relevance of a group that evolved from the British empire.

The club, whose 56 members range from India to the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, covers some 2.5 billion people or about one-third of the world's population. It presents itself as a network for cooperation, but critics say it needs to carve out a more concrete role and be less of a talking shop.

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