The Nairobi Declaration adopted at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development or TICAD, has leaders agreement to promote investment in infrastructure that leads to job creation in the region.

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Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country’s public and private sectors will offer cooperation for the development that is led by Africa itself.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sitting alongside him at the post TICAD press conference says Japan does not press its own views on the continent and continues to be a force for African development.

Abe’s  pledged that Japan will mobilize a total of $30 billion in private- and public-sector funds to invest in Africa over three years to boost infrastructure-building on the resource-rich continent.

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