Africa

In detail

8 April 2021

Minister Luigi Di Maio’s mission to Mali

Today and tomorrow Minister Luigi Di Maio will visit Mali, a strategic country for Italy where an embassy will soon be opened. On the agenda: – Meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zeini Moulaye – Meeting with the Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane – Meeting with the Minister of Malians Abroad and African Integration of the […]

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Press Releases

8 April 2021

Minister Di Maio’s visit to Mali

Strengthening cooperation on migration and security issues will be at the center of the talks that Minister Luigi Di Maio will hold today and tomorrow during  his two-day visit to Bamako, Mali’s capital. Today the Minister’s agenda includes meetings with Prime Minister Moctar Ouane, Minister of Foreign Affairs Zeini Moulaye and Minister of Malians Abroad […]

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Press Releases

24 March 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – Yemen

Italy welcomes Saudi Arabia’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire in Yemen and halt of military operations there. This is an important signal, which gives new impetus to the UN-led negotiations and opens up prospects for improving humanitarian conditions in the country and achieving a lasting peace. Italy reaffirms its full support to the Special Envoy […]

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Events

23 March 2021

The 2021 ISPI Prize is awarded to the memory of Luca Attanasio

This year’s ISPI Prize has been awarded to the memory of Luca Attanasio, the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo who died tragically last February, together with Carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci and their driver Mustapha Milambo. The award ceremony was attended by the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Fico, the Secretary General […]

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Press Releases

16 March 2021

Award to Sister Giovanna Comencini, born in 1920, in Eritrea since 1948. Vice Minister Sereni: “It is to people like her that we owe a great deal of our civilisation’.

Today, the Italian Ambassador to Eritrea, Marco Mancini, presented a plaque to the Combonian missionary Giovanna Comencini, known as Sister Giannantonia, born in 1920, from Verona, who arrived in Eritrea in 1948 and is currently living in the sisters’ house in Asmara, where the small ceremony was held. The initiative, promoted by the Vice Minister […]

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Press Releases

15 March 2021

South Sudan. Humanitarian flight by Italian Cooperation to supply humanitarian goods

A humanitarian flight of the Italian Cooperation landed this afternoon at the airport of Juba, in South Sudan, from the United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD) in Brindisi, with a cargo of 12 tonnes of humanitarian goods, relief materials and food aid, provided by the Italian Cooperation and civil society organisations respectively. The shipment, made […]

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In detail

9 March 2021

Italian Economic Diplomacy 09 March: breaking news from around the world

SOUTH AFRICA – THE OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED BY THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA (AfCFTA) ARE THE SUBJECT OF A WEBINAR TO BE HELD ON 11 MARCH.  The Italian Embassy in Pretoria, in collaboration with the ICE Office in Johannesburg, the Italian-South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Confindustria Assafrica & Mediterraneo, Africa e Affari and other organisations […]

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4 March 2021

Italian Economic Diplomacy 04 March: breaking news from around the world

ERITREA – IFAD EVENT ON THE POTENTIAL OF THE FISHERIES SECTOR IFAD, the Rome-based specialised agency of the United Nations dedicated to agricultural development, has organised an online meeting, on 11 March 2021, on the potential of the fisheries sector in Eritrea.  The Country has enormous resources, mostly underutilised and to exploit which a programme […]

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In detail

2 March 2021

Minister Di Maio holds telephone talks with the Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen

The Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, held telephone talks today with the Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen. The talks centred on the crisis in the Tigre region and the resulting humanitarian situation. The Minister and the Commissioner discussed Italy’s possible actions, within the EU framework, to foster the cessation […]

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Press Releases

26 February 2021

Congo: Foreign Ministry, the request to bolster security limited to the presidential elections

“Two officers representing our country, the Ambassador to Kinshasa Luca Attanasio and the Carabiniere police officer Vittorio Iacovacci, lost their lives on 22 February near Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, about 2,500 kilometres from the capital. This region had been classified as a high security risk area by the Foreign Ministry, also […]

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In detail

24 February 2021

Minister Di Maio holds telephone talks with the Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Marie Tumba Nzeza

On 22 February, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Luigi Di Maio held telephone talks with the Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo Marie Tumba Nzeza Accepting Italy’s request, the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo assured full collaboration with Italian investigators to shed light on the events leading to […]

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In detail

24 February 2021

Parliamentary briefing by Minister Di Maio on the events in DRC

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, will make a statement to the Chamber of Deputies, at 9 o’clock this morning, and to the Senate, at 10.45, on the tragic events that took place in Congo on 22 February 2021, resulting in the killing of the Italian Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo […]

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