JAPANESE Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba proposed an “economic zone” encompassing the Indian Ocean region and Africa during a major aid conference for African nations on Wednesday. In a speech to open the three-day Tokyo International Conference on African Development, the ninth of its kind, Ishiba pledged to cultivate 30,000 artificial intelligence experts in Africa over the next three years and announced the launch of a framework to be joined by governments, industries and academia to promote free trade in the region.
Kyodo
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