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. "Korean Air provides flights straight from Seoul to Kenya. Ethiopian Airlines ...
From base of social pyramid, only way is up
Third in a series In a small village in northwest Senegal, residents depend on a treatment plant to clean enough of the nearby muddy river to provide them with potable water. It takes a whole day for the blue machine with several attached tanks to purify ...
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 ...
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 ...
