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TICAD2013

Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 4, 2013
Importance of private sector's role featured in Yokohama Declaration
TICAD V ends with the adoption of the Yokohama Declaration, a pledge to promote private sector-led growth in achieving sustainable development.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2013
Abe pledges ¥100 billion to stabilize Sahel
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Sunday to provide ¥100 billion in humanitarian and development assistance over five years to help stabilize Africa's conflict-torn Sahel region.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2013
Tunisian leader touts investment opportunities
Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Sunday invited Japan's businesses to invest and play a major role in his country's transition toward democracy and a free-market economy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2013
Projected baby boom needs immediate action
With one-third of the world's children in 2050 predicted to be born in Africa, the international community must invest in their parents now, not down the road, UNICEF's executive director said in an interview with The Japan Times.
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2013
Japan to provide disaster expertise
Japan is primed to provide its disaster prevention expertise to Africa as climate change continues to threaten sustainable growth on the continent, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Sunday at the African aid conference.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 2, 2013
Abe to Africa: Use aid as you see fit
The fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development opens with a look back over the forum's past 20 years and discussions about its future.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 2, 2013
'Ethical fashion' concept employed to empower Africa's female artisans
Fashion can help empower women in Africa and lift them out of poverty, says the chief technical adviser of the International Trade Center, which promotes "ethical fashion."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 2, 2013
Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize
Two doctors from Belgium and Uganda were awarded the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize on Saturday at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development for their great strides in helping the world combat deadly infectious diseases.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2013
Tokyo urged to aid disease eradication battle
The world may be on the verge of a historic breakthrough in the quest to eradicate infectious diseases once thought incurable, and Japan needs to be a key player, said Mark Dybul, an executive of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS
Jun 1, 2013
Somalia seeks return to global fold
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has told Japan's and Africa's leaders that his country faces four challenges as it struggles to become a constructive member of the global community again after decades of civil war and anarchy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS
Jun 1, 2013
TICAD's to-do list extensive, 20 years on
Looking back on the Tokyo International Conference on African Development and its achievements over the past 20 years, Masaki Inaba touched on the number of flights that now directly connect Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 1, 2013
Abe offer at TICAD: ¥3.2 trillion in aid
The fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development is set to kick off with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe set to pledge up to ¥3.2 trillion in total aid over the next five years.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS
May 31, 2013
From base of social pyramid, only way is up
Third in a series
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 31, 2013
Africa fair spices up TICAD venue
Garments and baskets woven in bright colors, spicy cuisine and energetic music played on traditional instruments are livening up the vast Pacifico Yokohama convention center in Yokohama.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS
May 30, 2013
China biggest rival as Japan seeks to tap African resources
When the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami led to three core meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, an atomic calamity that effectively put the nation's remaining 50 reactors out of action, Japan was suddenly faced with an energy crisis unseen since the oil shocks of the early 1970s.
Japan Times
JAPAN / NURTURING PARTNERSHIPS
May 29, 2013
Coming together to move Africa forward
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development is a great opportunity for Japan to expand its business in Africa, as the resource-rich continent begins to shed its dependence on aid to emerge as an attractive consumer market and a swelling population, according to the Foreign Ministry's ambassador for TICAD V, Makoto Ito.

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