A joint statement by the African Union and Japan closed the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Tunis.Japan has promised "close collaboration" with Africa, in order to promote a "more resilient" economy there in the face of crises and epidemics and more "security" on a continent undermined by wars and terrorism, during the eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8) which took place on August 27 and 28, in Tunis.Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has deemed it essential to "remedy a historic injustice" for Africa to gain a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and Japan, he said, will push in this direction when he will be a non-permanent member in 2023-2024.Japan intends to “create an environment where the African people can live in peace and security in order to be able to develop”, explained Mr. Kishida, by videoconference from Tokyo, because positive for Covid-19.This theme was developed at length by the Senegalese President and current President of the African Union (AU) Macky Sall, claiming that "mentalities change"."What destabilizes us and prevents us from developing must be taken into account by the Security Council, whose mission it is," added Mr. Sall.Africa is the soft underbelly of international terrorism.We need a global response.»Emphasizing to the press that some West African countries "devote 30% of their budget to the fight against terrorism", Mr. Sall called for "these new charges" of African armies "to be taken out of the calculation of the deficit”.He further called on donors to contribute to the AU Peace Fund.Nearly twenty African Heads of State and Government attended the eighth Ticad Conference (Tokyo International Conference for African Development) in Tunis, which brought together 5,000 participants on Saturday and Sunday, also invited to a forum of entrepreneurs and parallel conferences .Japan, which announced on Saturday the granting of 30 billion dollars (30 billion euros) in private and public funds to Africa over three years, has planned a "peace and security" component for the training of police officers , assistance in the organization of elections, border control.Concrete aid of $8.3 million will be allocated in particular to the Sahelian region of Liptako-Gourma, straddling Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, devastated by jihadist attacks.Japan has also decided to appoint an ambassador for the Horn of Africa, where "the situation is deteriorating", noted Mr. Kishida, with an influx of refugees and food shortages.“The African continent continues to suffer, we have seen repeated acts of violence there.Sadly in Libya, the situation flared up again yesterday,” Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, host of the summit, told the media.Like Macky Sall, Mr. Saïed called for “a new approach” to international development aid for Africa, for heavily indebted countries like Tunisia, and to transform “debts into investments”.He regretted the emigration of human resources from the South to the North, after a "looting" of the resources of African countries, "from outside and from within, often by their own leaders".Mr. Sall referred to "a rescheduling or cancellation of debts" and reiterated the African demand for a "reallocation of special drawing rights" from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and "the implementation of the suspension of the service of the debt” (reimbursement of interest) promised by the G20, a group of the twenty leading world economies.“Faced with the double crisis that we are going through”, under the effect of the Covid and the war in Ukraine, he considered these measures necessary “to support the recovery of our economies”.The Tunis Declaration, adopted on Sunday, expressed "deep concern" over the impact of the war in Ukraine which has "created food insecurity in Africa".The leaders call for "a resumption of exports of cereals, agricultural products and fertilizers" to Africa.The Declaration takes up the three main 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