Viewers Corner News correspondent gathered that Japan has mapped out $30 billion (27 billion euros) to invest in African continent over the next three years. This was made known to African leaders by Shinzo Abe (the Japanese Prime Minister) on Saturday, August 27 during the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Nairobi (Kenya). Prime Minister Abe stated that the fund including $10 billion in infrastructure development would be used to support infrastructural development, education (training 20,000 mathematics and science teachers throughout Africa) and healthcare expansion which includes training 20,000 experts on how to handle infectious diseases. The package would be spread over three years starting from this year (2016).
Japan with its technological development has been showing interest in assisting the continent of Africa to grow nicely, during the last Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) meeting in 2013, Japan pledged $32 billion to African continent over a five-year period and Shinzo Abe said that 67 percent of that fund has already been used in various projects in the continent (Africa).
Source: Viewers Corner News.