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Limits to Japanese ambitions in Africa to weaken China’s influence

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Japan has recently announced an ambitious multibillion-dollar program of economic assistance to Africa — pledging to spend $30 billion on the continent and stressing a focus on training African professionals, food production and green growth — in a bid to provide the continent with an alternative to Chinese lending and investment. The recent flurry of […]
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Japanese Premier to be absent at TICAD 8 summit in Tunisia

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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will miss the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) summit planned to take place late this month in Tunis, after the Japanese state-run news Kyodo News announced he contracted COVID-19. Kishida tested positive to the virus on Sunday at the end of his summer break. He, commenced working […]