Newsfrom JapanTokyo, July 16 (Jiji Press)--The Eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, or TICAD 8, will be held in Tunisia, north Africa, in 2022, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday. TICAD is a Japan-led international conference to discuss the development of Africa. The first meeting was held in Tokyo in 1993, and the previous meeting in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, in August 2019. The next conference will be the second TICAD meeting in Africa, after the one in Kenya in 2016. [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]

Source: The North Africa Journal July 16, 2020 05:15 UTC