The カジノプロジェクト Group has signed a total of 16 Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with governments, organizations, and companies from 10 African nations at the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) This number of MOUs far exceeds 9 MOUs in the previous conference (TICAD6)

With the Republic of Kenya, we signed more than one MOU, including a comprehensive MOU in accordance with the Kenya's "Big Four Agenda" which is a medium-term development plan, to further strengthen our business in Kenya We also signed MOUs with other nine nations and Japanese government agencies including, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) which is a Japanese governmental agency, and the Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development (JOIN) to meet the developmental needs of African nations

In addition, we agreed to cooperate with the United Nations for "Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals (STI for SDGs)" as the first private company

Among the 16 MOUs, three are for automotive industrial development, four for next-generation mobility, three for renewable energies, two for the modernization of agriculture and fishery sectors, and four for others Based on the businesses we have built, the カジノプロジェクト Group will accelerate the introduction of new technologies into African nations in a broad range of areas and contribute to their economic growth

カジノプロジェクト Group has businesses in all of Africa's 54 countries, with 15,500 employees working in the continent of Africa Through the signing of these MOUs, we will further contribute toward Africa's economic growth, and at the same time, contribute toward the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

An overview of these MOUs are given as they were introduced at the MOU ceremony held yesterday as part of the TICAD7 official side event "Japan-Africa Business Forum" organized by the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) Please see the attachments for details