(in the Pic – Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo addressing the TICAD VI in Nairobi, Kenya). President Jacob Zuma is in Kenya to participate in the 6th Summit of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) taking place in Nairobi, in the Republic of Kenya. The TICAD process was initiated in 1993 as an advocacy platform for African Development specifically aimed at mobilising humanitarian aid and Official Development Assistance (ODA). TICAD is a partnership between Africa and Japan.
Since 2008, the partnership has focused on reinventing itself to become a more dynamic, results-oriented mechanism, reflecting the positive developments and progress being made across the African continent. TICAD VI is significant, specifically as it is the first TICAD Summit to be hosted on the African continent. 27/08/2016, Elmond Jiyane, GCIS
Prof. Julie Chen and Dr. Obert Hodzi just wrote a commentary on Japan, China and Africa’s triangular relation. It is published in “China Policy Institute: Analysis”, the famous online publication on China based at the University of Nottingham.
” Despite agreeing to rules-based maritime order with Japan a few months before, more than 20 African countries including South Africa, Kenya and Ethiopia supported China’s claims to the South China Sea. African leaders are exploiting the Sino-Japanese rivalry to coax out as much financial and material support from them as possible. And they will continue paying lip service at summits as long as India, the US, Turkey, China and Japan have “goodies” to dispense“, noted Chen and Hodzi. For the full article, please click here.