TICAD Media Watch

TICAD IV

TICAD in the News

With an eye to the upcoming Tokyo International Conference on African Development, the UNU will be surveying the international media in English, French and Japanese, bringing you the most interesting and relevant articles informing discussion and debate on African development.

2008.05.08

Kufuor to report on Ghana’s progress

“There are many kinds of benefit [sic] now for going to school; we are served with beans, oranges, water melons and gari, fried grated cassava – served with beef stew,” said Elizabeth Yeboah, a young school girl from Ghana’s Ashanti region. (Panapress)

The focus of Ghanian President John Kufour’s message at the upcoming TICAD IV conference in Yokohama, Japan, will be to highlight the progress Ghana has made in reducing poverty.

Part of a joint initiative launched by the UNDP and the government of Japan in 2006, the introduction of school feeding programmes was the outcome of a three part intervention on health, education and agriculture. The result has been a significant reduction in the number of school age children who miss out on basic education.

Structured in the framework of the UN Millennium Goals, “some 400,000 people in 79 villages across Africa” have now benefitted from similar initiatives launched under UN auspices.

Panapress notes that Japan is one of the leading financiers of the Millenium Villages project, which is accredited with the success in the Ashanti region and which is currently operating in 10 of Ghana’s poorest villages.

Reduce swelling

Since 2006, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been hosting the Eminent Speakers programme, aimed at shoring up expertise from renowned development specialists in order to better inform contemporary development policies in Africa.

AfDB president, Donald Kaberuka, along with a host of top management staff and diplomats gathered for a conference delivered by former World Bank president, James Wolfensohn in Tunis, Tunisia on April 25, 2008.

Coinciding with the international community’s increased aid commitments and loans for Africa, Mr. Wolfensohn warned that “Africa must reduce the multiplicity of decision centres, 53 states, 53 ministers of finance, and interlocutors and integrate its development programmes,” if it hopes to achieve meaningful development.

The conference theme, “Africa in a Global World: Partnerships for Success" and Mr. Wolfensohn’s remarks are set against the dramatic backdrop of recent Kenyan elections. An obvious example of bloated administrations, the new Kenyan coalition government under President Kibaki will face increased scrutiny from the international community and will have to do much to thwart accusations of corruption in what is being called “one of the largest cabinets in the world.” (Guardian)

Mr. Wolfensohn noted that for Africa to achieve sustainable development and a fairer distribution of global wealth, along with ownership of wealth-generating processes and resources, four conditions must be met: “ensure peace and stability, improve the pace of economic reform and avoid slippages, build institutional capacity, and ensure good debt management.”

While the onus may lie on Africans to appropriate transparent policy-making processes and adopt principles of good governance, it is incumbent upon the rich world to help Africa achieve these prerequisites.

Japanese care about Africa

"More Japanese citizens wish to help Africa, although Japan has no historical or geographical reasons to like European countries or the United States. The Japanese government should make this point at the conference," said Minoru Obayashi, chairman of the TICAD Civil Society Forum (TCSF) as reported by the Daily Yomiuri newspaper.

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development will aim at raising public awareness about pressing issues impeding African development. As well, it will serve as a forum to discuss policy measures and solutions to counter these obstacles, which will subsequently be presented at the annual G8 summit.

Mr. Obayashi has repeatedly stressed the importance of the TICAD insofar as it will focus attention and raise awareness on critical issues in Africa. It is suggested that a significant change in the mindset of Japanese youth is taking place, which has helped mobilize support and change for policies on Africa. “The younger generation wants to help those in need more than my generation did,” said Mr. Obayashi.

According to him, the politicians and officials who normally discuss development issues are too far removed from the reality of the African people. Here, he suggests the TCSF has an important role to play, as “the most powerful group when it comes to analyzing the government's policies on Africa.”

“The knowledge accumulated in Kyoto on such subjects as the African economy and political scene will help raise public awareness about the continent and promote grass-root activities. Recently, our activities and aid for African countries are picking up steam,” he said. (Daily Yomiuri)

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2008.04.26

Japan stays committed

The TICAD process has, since 1993, been a stage for high-level policy dialogue amongst Japanese and African leaders, diplomats and business. It played an instrumental role in the establishment of the New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), considered emblematic of a “self-help” approach to development in Africa.

NEPAD, according to the Nigerian Head of State, President Olusegun Obasanjo, galvanizes the tripartite partnership – “partnership within ourselves, partnership between ourselves, and partnership between Africa and its development partners” - necessary to bring about a unified and sustainable development strategy for Africa’s future. (Nigeriabusinessinfo.com)

The Ghanaian Chronicle notes that Japan is still firmly committed to the African continent. They believe this commitment is likely the result of Japan’s realization that with a large population and a generous endowment of natural resources, “Africa has a huge potential for development and growth.”

They also point out that Africa has known a sustained period of growth since 2004: 5% over 4 years.

Development on the African continent, it is suggested, has progressed in part due to “consolidation of peace and democratisation achieved by Africa's self-help efforts.” (Ghanaian Chronicle)

The TICAD IV conference is expected to mobilize knowledge, resources and attention for a ‘vibrant Africa’ open for investment and trade. The hope is that the TICAD IV, being convened only weeks before the 34th G8 summit in Hokkaido, Japan, “will have the voices of African countries heard by the world.”

2008.04.26

The “South-South” Paradigm

"I believe that this trend towards South-South co-operation should be encouraged to break the continuing North-South dependency development paradigm,” remarked President J. A. Kufour of Ghana at the 12th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), being held in Accra, Ghana from April 20-25. (Graphic Ghana)

Surrounded by panelists including the president of Brazil, Mr Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva; the president of Finland, Mrs Tarja Kaarina Halonen; the president of Sierra Leone, Mr Ernest Bai Koroma; the vice-president of El Salvador, Mrs Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar; and a former president of Tanzania, Mr Benjamin Mkapa, President Kufour called for a new partnership between Africa and its development partners. (Graphic Ghana)

President Kufour added that any new deal on aid, trade or investment must be “buttressed on a principle of development solidarity."

Former president of Tanzania, Mr Benjamin Mkapa, stressed the importance of sustainability in any policy that seeks to create wealth for Africans and insisted that “foreign direct investment (FDI) was a key factor to Africa's development and urged African countries to initiate policy reforms that would enable them to attract more investments.” (Graphic Ghana)

Calls to acknowledge the importance of South-South trade and cooperation are multiplying. India’s chief negotiator at the World Trade Organization, Rahul Khullar opening a round table discussion in Accra said “We are now talking about a more vocal South, a more vibrant South and a South that cannot be ignored both economically and politically.”

A few weeks before, at the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s Science with Africa conference in Addis Ababa, Ethopia (3-7 March, 2008) Algerian minister for education and scientific research, Sovad Bendjaballa, said: "It's important to form a south-to-south and north-to-south cooperation and identify areas for development. We need to set up linkages and programmes that will unite us." (New Vision)

"We also have big numbers of scientists in the diaspora who we need to entice with good salaries, so that they can come back to Africa and contribute to development," said Professor Edward Ayensu. (New Vision)

The emphasis on provision of modern infrastructure and equipment was part and parcel of the discussions in Ethopia. These were seen as prerequisites to repatriating the educated diaspora, the human resources essential to Africa’s development process.

One could assume that Japan, being an Asian country, would have no part to play in any discussion themed “South-South.” However, Deputy-Director-General Shigeyuki Hiroki of the International Cooperation Bureau (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) made it clear in his January 20 speech in Cairo, that “Japan has long recognized the effectiveness of South-South Cooperation and was engaged in this type of development cooperation.”

Deputy-Director-General Hiroki noted that with ‘Third-Country Training’ and ‘Third Country Expert’ dispatches, Japan has succeeded in providing assistance to a total of 175 courses conducted in 36 developing countries. He also noted that Japan has sent out a total of 181 Third-Country Experts in 2005 and 2006, alone. (UN-ECOSOC)

Japan aims to further its contribution to South-South cooperation in the future and sees the upcoming TICAD IV conference as an important platform to discuss and promote these issues.

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2008.04.23

Financing African development: whose gold rush?

There has apparently never been a better time to begin caring about Africa. In recent weeks, no fewer than six G8 countries have come out in boisterous support of African development: China, Japan, Canada, France, the United States and India have all announced renewed commitments to African development, with corresponding promises of aid and investment.

Amidst concerns over rising food prices, the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the attainment of Millennium Development Goals, "vigorous exchanges" are taking place, aimed at highlighting the global context in which aid is being offered. Referred to by some as ‘African Summiteering,’ it is argued that this sudden renewed concern for the African continent is the product of political and national interests, while others suggest that it is due to a common realization that Africa is still far behind many of its development targets and believe that solidarity is underpinning this greater attention.

Taking stock of recent partnership agreements and investment commitments, we have compiled a list of recent reports that go some way to illustrating the aid debate:

India

The first India-Africa Summit was held in New Delhi, India from April 7-9. Host to 14 African leaders, the summit engaged the Indian government in US$500 million’s worth of grants for development projects in Africa. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh remarked, “The time has come to create a new infrastructure for our engagement in the 21st century.” (The China Post)

Prime Minister Singh and his entourage could not detract the media from making the obvious association to the larger China-Africa summit held in Beijing in 2006, which was attended by about 40 heads of state, according to different sources, such as Xinhua and the BBC.

Pambazuka News reports the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs as having stated that while the New Delhi summit would "help the pace and spirit of historic and time-tested ties between India and Africa gather momentum [it] would not be correct [to see India-Africa relations as] competition with any other country."

China

At the first China-Africa Summit held in Beijing, China, in November 2006, President Hu Jintao pledged US$5 billion for loans and credit and to double aid to Africa by 2009. A further US$1.9 billion in deals were signed on that occasion. (Washington Post)

Meanwhile, the crux of the debate surrounding China’s ever increasing investments in the continent is said to revolve around resource depletion and questionable labor practices, among others. Critics argue that the Chinese bring and utilize their own labor force rather than employing Africans. (Independent Foreign Service/IOL)

The Yomiuri Shimbun notes that while the China-Africa summit is similar to the TICAD series, “China’s inroads into Africa have often been criticized for being too focused on crude oil and other natural resources.”

They add, “China has remained on good terms with the Sudanese government for the sake of securing crude oil supplies. Indeed, Beijing has been virtually defending Khartoum despite a barrage of international criticism over the Darfur conflict.”

Frustrations over China’s investment and labor policies reached a boiling point at the recent World Social Forum (WSF), held in Nairobi, Kenya in January.

When Humphrey Pole-Pole of the Tanzanian Social Forum criticized China for its role in “driving small and medium entrepreneurs to bankruptcy,” he was met with blunt opposition. His Chinese counterpart, Cui Jianjun, secretary general of the China NGO Network for International Exchanges, distilled the options thus: “We Chinese had to make the same hard decision on whether to accept foreign investment many, many years ago. You have to make the right decision or you will lose, lose, lose. You have to decide right, or you will remain poor, poor, poor.” (FPIF)

Japan

Described as the leader of ‘Africa Summiteering,’ Japan was the first to organize an aid and investment summit with Africa in 1993 at the first Tokyo International Conference on African Development. (Independent Foreign Service/IOL)

Later this year Japan is to host the fourth Tokyo International Conference on African Development. Recently, the Asahi Shimbun reported a drastic change in the Japanese government’s Official Development Aid (ODA) policies. Aimed to make aid more attractive to Japanese business, the government will now provide support to private sector companies involved in overseas aid projects. This is being referred to in the national media, as a “more efficient distribution of government funds.”

France

Notions of progress and adventure can evolve quickly. President Sarkozy signed a number of energy accords in South Africa earlier this year. Chief among them was a €1.36 billion coal-fueled power plant to be built by the French energy company, Alstom. (Craig Eisele)

President Sarkozy has been aggressively marketing French energy throughout the continent, having already signed agreements with Libya and Morocco. Other countries in Africa which are slated for talks include South Africa and Tunisia. (Herald Tribune)

President Sarkozy was prominently in the news in relation to Africa last year due to a highly commented-upon speech at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar on 26 July, 2007 in which he said:

Le drame de l'Afrique, c'est que l'homme africain n'est pas assez entré dans l'histoire. Le paysan africain, qui depuis des millénaires, vit avec les saisons, dont l'idéal de vie est d'être en harmonie avec la nature, ne connaît que l'éternel recommencement du temps rythmé par la répétition sans fin des mêmes gestes et des mêmes paroles.

Dans cet imaginaire où tout recommence toujours, il n'y a de place ni pour l'aventure humaine, ni pour l'idée de progrès.*

The speech attracted some attention from scholars, including Makhily Gassama who compiled an anthology of responses entitled L’Afrique répond à Sarkozy – Contre le discours de Dakar.

* "The tragedy of Africa is that the African man has never really entered history. The African peasant, who for centuries has lived according to the seasons, whose ideal is to be in harmony with nature, has known only the eternal renewal of time via the endless repetition of the same actions and the same words.

"In this mentality, where everything always starts over again, there is no place for human adventure, nor for any idea of progress."

(Unofficial translation from the Royal African Society’s website.)

Canada

Sponsor Wire reports that the Canadian government, in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB), has just announced a new Technical Cooperation Arrangement, which will see a CDN$5 million contribution to a joint Canadian Trust Fund. The contribution will be completely untied, echoing Indian and Chinese moves to provide similar condition-free grants.

The purpose of the Fund will be to address regional economic integration, private sector development and gender issues in the hopes of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

United States

And to conclude this review, we note that the ink has just barely dried on a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between USAID and the African Development Bank (AfDB), aimed at mobilizing funds in support of small and medium enterprises in Africa.

The MOU will last for 5 years and it is expected that, together, they will be able to raise a total of US$ 125 million. (PRNewswire-USNewswire)

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Africa, for the time being, is the world’s development ‘darling.’ It is still unclear whether these are positive or negative developments in the world’s approach to Africa. And while the natural resource industries have had an opportunity to assume a greater stake in the continent’s development, we are reminded that “even the best governed countries in Africa have not been able to make sufficient progress in reducing extreme poverty.” (Sustainability Watch)

It will be important not to lose sight of the persisting reality: UNICEF notes that 26,500-30,000 children die each day due to poverty. They “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death.” (UNICEF/Global Issues)

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2008.04.17

Africa v2.0

Participants in the recent ‘Africa 2.0: Affecting Change Using Technology’ panel - part of the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference held in Austin, Texas in early March – were the center of a lively debate on the role of technology and information communication systems in African alternative media.

Four African bloggers and entrepreneurs were invited to share their thoughts on the role technology has played, and continues to play in African development. Discussions centered on the role the mobile telephony platform and online forums have played in encouraging information dissemination, especially during moments of unrest.

Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) policy is under increased scrutiny in the lead up to the TICAD IV conference in Yokohama, Japan. Of particular concern is the perceived decrease lending to developing countries. While Japan wrestles with the re-evaluation of its lending policies, it is necessary to take head of such debates. The opinions from the floor and commentary by the panelists at SXSW, stressed “the need for innovation in the technology area instead of a re-appropriation of foreign solutions.” (NewAssignment)

Homegrown innovations in information communication technology will no doubt serve as a tool enabling indigenous development. While the scope of this forum was limited to English-speaking Africa, the need for this kind of insight is evident – not to mention timely, as Japan prepares to host both the TICAD and G8 meetings, both of which will focus on African development.

In a separate but related offering, the online Africa discussion forum, AfricanLoft, is showcasing 5 podcasts dealing with African development and infrastructure. The podcasts feature talks by African development and infrastructure experts and were originally released on the Voice Of America (VOA) website.

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2008.04.16

TICAD IV: Clarifying the agenda(s)

Kyodo News International and the Associated Press, have recently reported highlights of the TICAD Yokohama Action Plan draft, outlining the major themes to be taken up at this year’s Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD).

Building on the progress made in key areas of cooperation, this new action plan is tempered by a sense of urgency. Kyodo news reports Barfuor Adjei-Barwuah, Ghanaian Ambassador to Japan, as having said of the looming food crisis: “[it is] a critical and contemporary issue, that nobody can seriously ignore.”

Soaring food prices and climate change are being woven together as trans-regional issues that demand global attention and immediate solutions. “It is becoming starker by the day that unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a global contagion, leaving no country – developed or otherwise – unscathed,” said Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram at the ‘Bali Breakfast’ convened in Washington by World Bank President Robert Zoellick on Sunday. (Reuters)

To help tackle possible food shortages and to help stymie rising food prices, Japan will try to focus the discussions on the sustained provision of technical assistance: water resource management, irrigation schemes and technologies to boost rice production.

Along with numerical targets for increasing financial aid and setting specific goals for achievement, the draft Yokohama Action Plan sets out a three-tier follow-up mechanism to gather information, monitor progress and establish continuous talks at the ministerial level.

Climate change will also be discussed at length at the TICAD conference; a first since its inception in 1993. Emphasizing a holistic approach to the climate change issue, the text of the draft noted, “All the countries in the world, African countries included, need to act together, cooperating to establish an effective framework for addressing climate change after the year 2012, in which the goal is to dramatically decrease greenhouse gases, cutting emissions in half by the year 2050.” (Reuters)

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2008.04.14

The pulse of the debate: the state of aid for Africa

The BBC reports that a new study released this week by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) points to a shortfall in aid from developed countries to developing countries.

The report stresses that the G8 group of countries are particularly vulnerable to miss their pledge to double aid to sub-Saharan Africa by 2010. The report estimates that this downward trend was fuelled by debt relief efforts in Iraq and Nigeria. (BBC)

However, the numbers are contentious and the report adds, “The fall was expected.” In fact, if the total figures for debt relief are taken into consideration, a new picture emerges.

“Aid from many DAC EU countries fell in real terms, due mainly to decreased debt relief: Belgium (11.2%), France (-15.9%), Italy (-3.6%), Portugal (-9.4%), Sweden (-2.6%) and the United Kingdom (29.1%). Excluding debt relief, aid rose in these countries with the exception of Portugal and the United Kingdom (where net ODA decreased slightly due to sales of equity investments).” (OECD)

In response, G8 countries with counterparts from Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korean and South Africa joined in talks in an attempt to assuage these concerns.

At a two-day G8 ministerial meeting held in Tokyo from April 5 - 6, development officials discussed strategies for bolstering aid to Africa. Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura noted that the developments or lack thereof would be closely scrutinized by the world community at the G8 Summit taking place from June 7-9 in Hokkaido, Japan. He added, “I’m determined to stop this downward trend of Japan’s official development assistance and put it up.” (AFP)

The Agence France-Presse reports a Japanese foreign ministry official affirming that “that the G8 countries – Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States – should ‘strictly’ fulfill their fund pledges as they have promised.”

The discussions surrounding aid policies for Africa are likely to become more contentious in the near future. A juxtaposition of Chinese aid policies on the one hand, and United States, European Union and Japanese policies on the other, brings the manifest tensions of this development gold rush into stark relief.

Central to this debate is the ‘conditionality’ attached to development aid from traditional donor countries. Emerging donors, India and China, are offering condition-free development funds as a way of shoring up political support and access to much needed natural resources.

At the occasion of the Tokyo ministerial, France’s junior co-operation minister, Alain Joyandet, remarked “This new aid is at the same time a hope and a difficulty.” (AFP)

Switching drivers: who will lead integration in Africa?

"[…] the European aid program has been carried out in Africa for 50 years, but is [sic] does no work," Martyn Davies, executive director of the Center for Chinese Studies of Stellenbosch University, said to reporters gathered in north Johannesburg for a conference themed “China as a driver of regional integration in Africa: Prospects for the future.” (Xinhua)

China, it is proposed, could play a greater role in galvanizing regional integration by way of economic development. The proposals took a similar form to those typically put forth by Japan: Africa drawing lessons from the Asian development miracle. It is suggested that the Africa-Chinese partnership is one which is based on mutual gain resulting from, mainly, a focus on infrastructure development and energy exploration.

While speaking highly of the Chinese contribution to regional integration efforts through African Union initiatives, Zhong Jianhua, Chinese Ambassador to South Africa, said that “China is only a helper instead of a driver in promoting regional integration of the continent.”

The Johannesburg conference was jointly hosted by the South African Center for Chinese Studies and the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) between March 31 and April 1.

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2008.04.11

TICAD’s African Rapporteurs

The Senegalese daily on-line news journal Le Soleil reports that three African journalists have been invited by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to cover the lead up to and outcome of the TICAD IV conference.

Drawn from three distinct regions in Africa, the journalists are expected to “contribute a critical vision of the TICAD process generally, and Japanese cooperation in particular.” Le Soleil

The team of journalists includes Joseph Kubebeka Kulangwa from Tanzania, chief editor of the Majira Newspaper ; covering developments in East Africa is Ms. Rose Chumpuka, Head Special Projects, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation; and Mamadou Klassé, PR Technical Counselor of the Ministry of Information in Senegal, is set to cover progress in Western Africa.

Also the former chief editor of Le Soleil, Mamadou Klassé stresses that Japan and Africa share a common future, which is inextricably linked by the process of globalization. Le Soleil

“Mobilize Societal Resources”: Janneh’s Call for Balanced Development

In his opening statement before the heads of state gathered in Ethopia, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA, Mr. Abdoulie Janneh noted that any future vision of Africa must balance development policy and strategy, adding, the focus must be on building “capable states that derive their priorities from ownership and popular participation and that are able to mobilize societal resources behind common goals and aspirations.”

While the recent international climate was such that Africa figured prominently at the highest levels of international negotiation, the continuance of this dialogue isn’t automatically given. Mr. Janneh noted that “at fifty, we in ECA feel that Africa must pause and reflect on whether our development trajectory is on the right path, as we also consider what will be Africa’s future role in global economic terms.”

Mr. Janneh signaled that the Addis Ababa meeting was a timely gathering, allowing for constructive negotiations and agenda-setting prior to the G8 Summit to be held in Japan later this year.

From March 31 to April 2, the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa hosted the 1st Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union (AU) Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.

Leveraging Experience: Building on Lessons from Asia

South Africa’s Foreign Affairs Deputy Director-General for Asia and the Middle East, Ambassador Jerry Matjila, commented on the TICAD IV conference to be held in Yokohama, Japan at a recent media briefing in Pretoria, South Africa. Ambassador Matjila underscored the tremendous progress Asia has made in terms of economic and social development, despite the obvious constraints on natural resources. Given that Africa has much more resources at its disposal it is all the more pressing, he noted, to harness the lessons from Asia, for Africa, now.

A Sure Way Forward? Revisiting South-South Partnerships for African Development

At the conclusion of the recent Africa-Asia-America Business Summit (AAABS) last week in Port Louis, Mauritius, the general atmosphere was one of determination - despite some contradicting points of view on African development.

The Inter Press Service news agency noted that the chief executive officer of the Economic Development Board of Madagascar, Prega Ramsamy, was focused on the role globalization and trade liberalization will play in reducing poverty in Africa.

Trade data presented by the Finance Ministry in Mauritius, however, highlighted the dismal track record of South-South trade; noting that “Intra-African trade improved only slightly from five percent of total African trade in 1980 to 10 percent today.” IPS

These statements came after Dr. Mohan Kaul, director of the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC), announced that the AAABS “will in fact enhance South-South partnership which can leverage the new dynamism generated by South Africa, China, India and Brazil.” APA

The theme of South-South cooperation will be center stage at the TICAD IV Summit hosted in Yokohama, Japan. The AAABS conference was jointly organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the CBC.

News and opinion pieces have been collected here as an information service, and their inclusion does not imply endorsement. UNU is not responsible for the content of external links.

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UNU & TICAD IV

UNU and TICAD IV

Within the framework of the TICAD Process, UNU will organize a series of public events featuring topics of relevance to African development, including environmental issues and most specifically climate change, science and technology, and education.

UNU will organize five official side events during the TICAD conference, as well as other public events that will be taking place prior to and after the conference itself.

UNU & TICAD I, II, & III

• UNU & Previous TICAD Conferences

Websites

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development

• African Development: TICAD Process (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan)

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