Dei – Cameroon: Garman to outfit A and B series football teams for 4 years

Italian firm Garman is to be the official provider of uniforms to the 36 A and B series teams of the Cameroon championship tournament for the next four years. The company signed a contract with the Cameroon Professional Football League for a mix of sponsorships and sportswear supplies amounting to 300,000 euro per year, for […]

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Marseille – Women’s role in the Great War

Women and the Great War will be the focus of an event at the Italian Cultural Institute of Marseille (18:00) within the context of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Women, who took over the jobs of the men who had gone to the front, and who also went to […]

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San Francisco – “Best”, young Italian talent in Silicon Valley in the footsteps of Olivetti

The “Best” project is an opportunity for young people promoted with the collaboration of the Italian Consulate of San Francisco and supported by the ENEL Foundation and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa. A competition for study bursaries whose winners will spend 6 months in Silicon Valley to understand how an idea can lead to […]

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UN – Della Vedova in New York – 59th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women

Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Benedetto Della Vedova is in New York to speak at the 59th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).   Della Vedova will take part in the Commission’s General Debate dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the historic conference on women held in Beijing […]

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Buenos Aires – The art of Luiso Sturla

The Sala Roma of the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires will host an exhibition from 10 to 27 March entitled “Poesia di vita a colori. Oli su carta di Luiso Sturla”. A recollection of travels in Europe and South America and of their diverse cultures and peoples. The artist was born in 1930 in […]

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London – Pif stirs hearts with “La mafia uccide solo d’estate”

Palermo-based filmmaker Pierfrancesco Diliberto (known to his many fans as Pif) continued his international tour in London with a screening of his film “The Mafia only Kills in Summer” at the Cinema Made in Italy Festival, which closes today in that city. The film won the Donatello’s David award for best new director in 2014 […]

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IV Meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission – Joint Communiqué

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico José Antonio Meade co-chaired the sessions of the IV Meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission today in Mexico City. Both ministers acknowledged the importance of the Bi-National Commission as the foremost institutional bilateral relations instrument. A tool by which […]

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Giro at the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) in Antigua de Guatemala

Under-Secretary Giro will participate tomorrow as an invited observer in the Ministerial Meeting of the Association of Caribbean States, held in Antigua de Guatemala. The under-secretary will meet with the foreign minister of Guatemala, who recently spoke in Rome at a conference for the presentation of Italian initiatives and programmes to ensure security in Central […]

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Gambia: Chief Engineer of Motopeschereccio Idra Q Massimo Liberati released

The authorities of Gambia have released Massimo Liberati, Chief Engineer of Motopeschereccio Idra Q, who was arrested on 2 March along with Commander Sandro De Simone on the charge of using fishing nets non-compliant with Gambian regulations. Liberati’s release was secured upon receipt of the ship owner’s guarantee of payment of a fine set by […]

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Italy-Mexico: Gentiloni in Mexico City, to participate in Bi-National Commission, cooperation accords to be signed

Minister Paolo Gentiloni is in Mexico City for a meeting of the Italy-Mexico Bi-National Commission, the foremost bilateral collaboration body. Gentiloni will meet with Senate President Miguel Barbosa Huerta and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Jose’ Antonio Meade Kuribrena, with whom he will discuss international policy concerns. Cooperation accords The Commission sessions will focus on the […]

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Dei – Algeria: 700 million euro contract to Danieli for Bellara plant

The Danieli group was awarded a 700 million euro contract in Algeria, along with the Algerian-Quatari group AQS, for the supply of the metal rolling and casting plants of the new steelworks in Bellara. The turnkey contract also includes the construction and mounting of the steelworks. Once fully operational, the Bellara plant should produce over […]

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Montreal – The role of music in the Risorgimento, reflections in Canada

What better means than music to spread new ideas of freedom, independence and love of country? The operas written by Giuseppe Verdi between 1842 and 1849 had a strong patriotic component and were received enthusiastically by the public. Offering an occasion for reflection on the subject will be a conference entitled “Music and the reawakening […]

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