アフリカ開発会議、２２年はチュニジア

　菅義偉官房長官は１６日の記者会見で、２０２２年の第８回アフリカ開発会議（ＴＩＣＡＤ８）を北アフリカのチュニジアで開催すると発表した。新型コロナウイルス感染症など保健分野の協力が主な議題になる見通し。菅氏は「新型コロナは保健・医療面をはじめアフリカが抱える脆弱（ぜいじゃく）性を浮き彫りにした」と指摘した。（2020/07/16-12:15）

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 8 is expected to focus chiefly on cooperation in the health care field, including the fight against such infectious diseases as the novel coronavirus.
   "The novel coronavirus has exposed the vulnerability of African countries in the health and medical fields," Suga told a press conference.
   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.