All about Japan Africa summit here: in Tunis, Japan is committed to "security and development" in Africa.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Sunday, at the end of a Japan-Africa summit in Tunis, to "strengthen its partnership with Africa" and to "remedy a historical injustice", by pushing for the continent to obtain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Objective: to counteract the influence of China and promote a development "led by Africans themselves". Japan promised, on Sunday, August 28, "close collaboration" with Africa, in order to promote a "more resilient" economy in the face of crises and epidemics, and more "security" on a continent undermined by wars and terrorism, at a summit in Tunis.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida considered it essential to "remedy a historical injustice" for Africa to obtain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and Japan, he said, will push in this direction when it becomes a non-permanent member in 2023-2024.
Japan Africa summit
Japan intends to "create an environment where the African people can live in peace and security in order to be able to develop", explained Fumio Kishida, by videoconference from Tokyo, because positive for Covid-19.
This theme was developed at length by the Senegalese president and current president of the African Union (AU) Macky Sall, demanding that "mentalities change". "What destabilizes us and prevents us from developing must be taken into account by the Security Council, whose mission it is," Macky Sall added. "Africa is the soft underbelly of international terrorism [...] There needs to be a global response," he pleaded.
Stressing to the press that some West African countries "devote 30% of their budget to the fight against terrorism", Macky Sall pleaded for "these new charges" for the African armies "to be taken out of the deficit calculation". He further called on donors to contribute to the AU Peace Fund.
Nearly 20 African heads of state and government attended the eighth Ticad summit (Tokyo International Conference for African Development) in Tunis, which brought together, on Saturday and Sunday, 5,000 participants also invited to an entrepreneur forum and parallel conferences.
Japan Africa summit announcements
Japan, which announced on Saturday the granting of $ 30 billion in private and public funds to Africa over three years, has planned a "peace and security" component for the training of police officers, assistance in organizing elections, border control.
Concrete aid of $ 8.3 million will be allocated in particular to the Sahel region of Liptako-Gourma, straddling Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, devastated by jihadist attacks.
Japan has also decided to appoint an ambassador for the Horn of Africa, where "the situation is deteriorating," noted Fumio Kishida, with an influx of refugees and food shortages.
"The African continent continues to suffer, we have seen repeated acts of violence there. Sadly in Libya, the situation flared up again yesterday," Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, host of the summit, told the media.
Like Macky Sall, Kaïs Saïed called for "a new international approach" to development assistance to Africa, for highly indebted countries (such as Tunisia) and to transform "debts into investments".
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He regretted the emigration of human resources from the South to the North, after a "plundering" of the resources of African countries, "from outside and from within often due to their own leaders".
Macky Sall mentioned "a rescheduling or cancellation of debts" and reiterated the African demand for a "reallocation of special drawing rights" from the IMF, and "the implementation of the suspension of debt service" (repayment of interest) promised by the G20, grouping of the top 20 world economies.
"Faced with the double crisis that we are going through", under the effect of Covid and the war in Ukraine, he considered these measures necessary "to accompany the recovery of our economies".
The Tunis Declaration, adopted on Sunday, expressed "deep concern" about the impact of the war in Ukraine which has "created food insecurity in Africa". The leaders call for "a resumption of exports of cereals, agricultural products and fertilizers" to Africa.
The Declaration takes up the three main axes of Japan's cooperation with Africa: an acceleration of growth with investments in the green economy and start-ups, a "resilient economy" with support for the production of medicines and vaccines and food security and "peace and security" by supporting mediation and conflict prevention.
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