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It’s Africa+1 Summit Season in Asia

Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (front row, C) and ministers from African countries pose during the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo on August 24, 2024. JIJI PRESS / AFP

African ministers and senior policymakers will be zipping across Asia for the next two weeks to attend a series of so-called “Africa+1 events” that began in Japan last weekend and continue in Indonesia early next week and then on to Beijing for the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit.

Representatives from 47 African countries took part in the two-day ministerial gathering in Japan for the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TOCAD) that ended on Sunday.

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