A street vendor sells homemade cookies to commuters queueing to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Commuters queue to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Commuters queue to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

Commuters queue to board a minibus taxi at Bara Taxi rank in Soweto on April 1, 2026, a day after South Africa lowered its fuel tax for a month to offset a global oil price surge driven by the Iran war, even as pump prices rose in one of the steepest increases on record. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP via Getty Images)

A woman walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on April 1, 2026. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP via Getty Images)

A man walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the closing numbers of the Nikkei Stock Average on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo on April 1, 2026. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP via Getty Images)

French Ambassador to Japan Beatrice Le Fraper du Hellen smiles for a group photo with President Emmanuel Macron (not pictured) and Japanese and French business leaders at the Tokyo Innovation Base (TIB) in Tokyo on April 1, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

(FILES) A view of new Peugeot 308 cars by French car maker PSA Peugeot Citroen in the parking garage at the company's factory in Sochaux, eastern France, on March 6, 2014. The Peugeot 308 has been elected 'Car of the year' for 2014 at the Geneva motor show. New car sales in France rose 12.86% in March year-on-year, a rebound after a difficult start to the year for the automotive market, according to data published on April 1, 2026 by the Plateforme automobile (PFA), the sector's lobbying body. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP via Getty Images)