Overview

• Japan and African governments closed the Tokyo conference with 300 signed agreements covering cooperation across the continent.
• The commitments span infrastructure, healthcare, technology and digital innovation, education, and agriculture and food security.
• TICAD is a Japan-led forum launched in 1993 and co-organized with the United Nations, the World Bank, and the African Union, which has mobilized billions for African development.
• The tally is roughly triple the approximately 100 agreements recorded at TICAD8 in Tunisia in 2022.
• Japanese officials cast the approach as sustainable, transparent, and locally beneficial compared with Chinese investment models, with progress to be monitored by joint Japan–Africa committees and supported by follow-up missions and expanded private-sector activity.