Source: Africa Publicity
The Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) started in Yokohama on Wednesday, August 20, 2025, with the Prime Minister of Japan, Shigeru Ishiba, surrounded by several African Presidents, outdooring a new economic program for Africa.
TICAD 9 will be held for three days. At the opening ceremony, the Japanese leader who is co-chairing the Conference, proposed the new regional economic initiative designed to enhance economic ties between Africa and regions linking it with India. This year’s conference is mainly themed on the cocreation of innovative measures to meet challenges facing African countries through Japanese technologies.
Prime Minister Ishiba further announced that the Japanese public and private sectors will collaborate to increase investments in Africa.
According to him, “It will be an age, from now, in which solutions produced in Africa help global society including Japan.”
He added that “Japan hopes that it will maintain reliable partnerships with the continent, providing each other with solutions.”
The Japanese Prime Minister urged “Let Japan and leaders gathering here from African countries as one meet challenges that the world and Africa have faced, by discussing together innovative means to solve them,” he added.
On the Conference, he says the TICAD9 will focus on the regional integrity of the continent and its links with other regions, the sustainable development of its private sector, and young people as well as women across the continent.
