Leaders hail success of TICAD summit in Tunis

The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) summit concluded on Sunday with a series of agreements and $30 billion in funding agreed for African countries.

More than 30 agreements were signed between Japan and African countries on the sidelines of the meeting in Tunis, with leaders hailing the success of the summit.

Economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a food crisis worsened by Russia's war in Ukraine, and climate change challenges faced by many African countries were among the topics discussed at the two-day conference.

The Japanese government created and hosted the first TICAD summit in 1993. The conferences now are co-organized with the United Nations, the African Union and the World Bank.

The summits have generated 26 development projects in 20 African countries.