{"id":39913,"date":"2019-08-28T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T10:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-to-address-tokyo-international-conference\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T11:26:09","slug":"kagame-to-address-tokyo-international-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-to-address-tokyo-international-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame to address Tokyo International Conference on African Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-day global summit is set to open on August 28.   <\/p>\n<p>It is the 7th of its kind bringing together Africa and Japan.  This year\u2019s edition is dubbed Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD). <\/p>\n<p>It will be a good opportunity to discuss how to promote investment and trade between both parties.   <\/p>\n<p>The participation of President Kagame has been confirmed by Rwanda\u2019s State Minister in Charge of East African Community at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Olivier Nduhungirehe.<\/p>\n<p>Nduhungirehe said that the President will feature in a panel session on \u2018deepening sustainability and resilient economy\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Other topics to be discussed include; universal health care, science, technology and infrastructure, disaster risk reduction and climate change, as well as human resources development and education.<\/p>\n<p>Nduhungirehe also said via a twitter account that the partnership between African countries and Japan remains concrete and strong, mainly in infrastructure, agriculture, ICT and human resources.<\/p>\n<p>The summit follows the last one held in Kenya in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) is a conference held regularly with the objective of promoting high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners. <\/p>\n<p>Japan is a co-host of these conferences. Other co-organizers of TICAD are the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Africa (UN-OSSA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<\/p>\n<p>TICAD has been an evolving element in Japan&#8217;s long-term commitment to fostering peace and stability in Africa through collaborative partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Japan has stressed the importance of &#8220;Africa&#8217;s ownership&#8221; of its development as well as of the &#8220;partnership&#8221; between Africa and the international community.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31764 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-2827-07115.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame will attend the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31765 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-2206-997ec.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31766 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-1534-6bc02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31767 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-1820-5cecd.jpg\" alt=\"The President will feature in a panel session on \u2018deepening sustainability and resilient economy\u2019.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31768 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-1340-baa92.jpg\" alt=\"The partnership between African countries and Japan remains concrete and strong, mainly in infrastructure, agriculture, ICT and human resources.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame will attend the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in the Japanese city of Yokohama and address participants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39913"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39913"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}