Kenya is set to hold the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) on the twenty seventh and twenty eighth this August.

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The conference will be graced by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and the theme will be promoting health system in Africa, promoting structural development social stability, industrialization. 

Other agendas will include 2030 agenda for sustainable development agenda 2063 and the conference's first ten year implementation plan.

This will be the first ever TICAD VI conference to be held in Africa since all the five others have been held in Japan.

The event is expected to attract over six thousand participants from Africa, Japan and other international organizations. Other prominent world leaders including heads of states from the member nations are also expected to be present.

The conference had been announced on January 31, this year by President Uhuru Kenyatta in the presence of African Union Commission Chair His Excellency Dlamini Zuma at the African Union headquaters in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

The conference was launched  by the Japanese government in 1993 with an aim of promoting development, security and peace through strengthening of relations in multilateral partnership and corporation with Japan.