Japanese PM on three-nation African tour
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making a three-nation visit to Africa this month in an effort to build commercial ties, particularly in the area of natural resources, while giving impetus to aid commitments made at the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD V, which was held in Yokohama in June last year.
Abe is the first Japanese Prime Minister to tour Africa since Junichiro Koizumi in 2006 and will visit Côte d’ Ivoire, Mozambique and Ethiopia between January 10 and 14.
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