TUNIS: Japan will cooperate closely with African countries to promote 'more resilient' economies, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the final session of an investment conference in Tunisia on Sunday (Aug 28). He also promised Japan would use its place on the United Nations Security Council next year to pus
TUNIS: Japan will cooperate closely with African countries to promote"more resilient" economies, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told the final session of an investment conference in Tunisia on Sunday .
Senegalese President Macky Sall, chair of the 55-member African Union, backed Kishida's call for the continent to have a seat on the UN Security Council. Some 20 African heads of state and government took part in the summit in the North African nation, which brought together around 5,000 people from business and other sectors and shut down major roads across Tunis, causing weekend traffic chaos.
Kishida also announced that Japan would appoint a special envoy to the Horn of Africa, where a long and devastating drought in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has prompted the UN's weather agency to warn this week of an"unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe".
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