The infrastructure ministry met with about 120 companies and organizations to discuss how to facilitate investment in Africa as Japan steps up efforts to build infrastructure in the resource-rich continent. The meeting Tuesday was the first of several to be held each year with ...
Poaching syndicates were able to move large shipments of African elephant ivory last year despite global calls to dismantle the trafficking networks that often collude with corrupt government officials, conservationists said Saturday at an international wildlife meeting. The illegal ivory trade “has remained fairly ...
The genetic ancestry of people living outside Africa can be traced almost completely to a single exodus of humans from that continent long ago, new studies suggest. Still, a tiny legacy from an earlier exit may persist in some native islanders in the Southwestern ...
Many people in countries in which Japan is funding huge projects are unaware of its contributions.
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake that struck Tanzania, close to Lake Victoria and the border with Uganda, has killed at least 14 people and injured 200, local authorities said Sunday. Deodatus Kinawilo, district commissioner for Bukoba, the town close to the epicenter of the quake, said ...
Rhino horns worth around $1 million were to be burned on Thursday at the San Diego Zoo in a bid to raise awareness about the endangered species decimated by poachers. “This rhino horn burn sends the message to criminal networks and to rhino horn ...
China needs to start reigning in its marauding fishing fleets and treat its African partners on equal terms.
As he attempted to differentiate Japan from China, which has been rapidly increasing its influence in the region, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe highlighted the quality of Japanese assistance at last weekend’s conference in Kenya with African leaders. At the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on ...
The three mega-banks said they will expand their businesses in Africa, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s pledge over the weekend to bolster measures to boost investment in the resource-rich continent. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., Mizuho Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ are aiming ...
Japanese and African leaders pledged to fight terrorism and emphasized the importance of rules-based maritime order as they wrapped up a Japan-led international conference on the continent’s development. In the Nairobi Declaration adopted at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) on Sunday, ...
JPrime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Tokyo’s cooperation in developing a key port in southern Kenya on Sunday in talks with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Japan attaches importance to developing Mombasa port, a gateway to the East African market, and strengthening ties with Kenya amid ...
Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi announced Sunday that the city would like to host the next round of a Japanese-led African development conference in 2019. Hayashi unveiled the proposal to host the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development at a press conference in Nairobi. ...
