The President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has visited Africa many times during his premiership, will be in Ethiopia and Djibouti from the countries of the Horn of Africa in January 21-24, 2015. The trip of Erdoğan who visited Ethiopia before in 2005 had a historical meaning because of the first visit to Sub-Saharan Africa in the level of Premiership from Turkey.
While both countries in the visit program are in the The Least Developed Countries List of EU, Ethiopia, who has been the fifth fastest growing economy in the world with a rate of 8,4% in the period of 2001-2010, has grown up in the rate of 9,8% in the period of 2011-2013 by keeping on its stability.

9^th International Turkish-African Congress with its main theme “Sectoral and Financial Transformation in Africa: Opportunities & Risks” was organized by TASAM African Institute in Istanbul on 24-25 April 2014.