Japan is offering African countries a lifeboat to help keep them from drowning as the IT tsunami sweeps around the globe.
The rescue effort takes another step late next month when a government mission heads to South Africa and Tunisia to explore possible areas of economic assistance for these and other African countries, government sources said Friday.
The sources said the mission, headed by Wataru Nishigahiro, deputy director general of the Foreign Ministry's Economic Cooperation Bureau, will make the trip for about 10 days, starting around June 20.