TRUE: President Uhuru Kenyatta is in Japan for the TICAD 7 Conference

Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that President Kenyatta held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Yokohama on August 28

A tweet shared on the State House page claiming that President Uhuru Kenyatta will attend the seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Japan is TRUE.

According to a statement by State House Spokesperson Kanze Dena-Mararo, President Uhuru Kenyatta left the country on August 26 to attend the seventh edition of TICAD in Yokohama, Japan.

The State House Kenya Twitter page shows that President Uhuru Kenyatta and 30 other Heads of State are in Japan for the three day conference scheduled to end on August 30.

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A statement from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks with President Kenyatta on August 28, where he pledged his country’s support for the development of Mombasa Special Economic Zone and construction of Mombasa Gate Bridge.

State House added that Japan will also support the universal health coverage through public private partnerships.

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The Government of Japan has hosted the TICAD conferences since 1993, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme, World Bank and African Union Commission.The forum aims to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of countries in Africa through aid.

PesaCheck has looked into the claim that President Kenyatta is attending the ongoing TICAD 7 meeting in Yokohama, Japan and finds it to be TRUE.

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This fact-check was written by PesaCheck Researcher James Okong’o, was edited by PesaCheck Deputy Editor **Ann Ngengere and was approved for publication by PesaCheck Managing Editor [Eric Mugendi](http://twitter.com/mougendi)**.

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