Africa

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31 August 2015

Italy-Mozambique – Deputy Minister Calenda’s mission to Facim

  Deputy Minister for Economic Development Carlo Calenda made an important mission to the FACIM multisector fair in Maputo, Mozambique at the head of a business delegation of approximately 50 oil and gas sector concerns coordinated by Confindustria. Our country was represented by over 60 firms overall, united in a single Italian pavilion organised by […]

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28 August 2015

Dei – Zambia: accordo con IFC per fronteggiare crisi energetica

Per far fronte alla crisi energetica che sta colpendo lo Zambia, l’Industrial Developoment Corporation zambiano ha siglato un accordo con l’IFC (Gruppo Banca Mondiale) per sviluppare 2 impianti fotovoltaici da 50 MW l’uno che dovrebbero attivare investimenti privati nel settore. Gli impianti verranno gestiti da imprese private selezionate con una aggiudicazione a gara sulla base […]

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Press Releases

27 August 2015

Agreement for a solution to the civil conflict in South Sudan is welcomed by Italy

The signing by President Salva Kiir of the agreement for the solution of the civil conflict in South Sudan has been welcomed by Italy. Opposition leader Riek Machar had already signed the agreement on 17 August 2015. Italy hopes that the agreement will mark the start of a new period of stabilisation and growth for the […]

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11 August 2015

Cooperation – 500,000 euro for war victims in Sudan

A new initiative by Italian Development Cooperation to protect the human rights of victims of war and violence in the states of Darfur, Blue Nile and Kordofan in Sudan. The Directorate General has approved a voluntary emergency donation worth 500,000 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). “Sudan Revised Emergency Appeal 2015” The […]

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3 August 2015

Kenya: Nairobi Forum focuses on architectural refurbishment

The “Efficiency in Industrial Process, Energy and Construction” forum was held in Nairobi on 27 July. In the margins of the event, where Italy was well represented by Italian and local firms, a round table discussion was held on the architectural refurbishment of the historic centre of the coastal city of Mombasa, to which the […]

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21 July 2015

DEI: Ghana launches 1 billion USD plan for refurbishment of 330 km of railway

Ghana presented a project for the refurbishment of its Western Corridor railway line, running from Takoradi to Kumasi, with an extension to the mining districts of Tarkwa (manganese) and Awaso (bauxite). The project involves approximately 330 km of railway, 38 stations, two terminals and 200 bridges, for an estimated cost of nearly 1 billion USD. […]

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20 July 2015

Addis Ababa – Agreement with Italian firm for viewing Series A in Ethiopia

As a result of an agreement between the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and TVN Media Group of Milan, the Series A matches of the Italian soccer championship will be available for the viewing pleasure of the 90 million inhabitants of Ethiopia, a country with strong historic ties with Italy. Read more, in Italian.

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Press Releases

17 July 2015

Gentiloni meets with UN Special Envoy for the Sahel Hiroute Guebre Sellassie

Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni met today at the Farnesina with the UN Secretary General’s special envoy for the Sahel, Hiroute Guebre Sellassie. “This was an important meeting to coordinate Italy’s actions in the Sahel with the strategy the special envoy is outlining for the region”, Minister Gentiloni said. “We are following […]

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23 June 2015

Africa, OECD: Ample areas of stability and growth

“When referring to Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, we think mainly about immigration, the demographic surge coming from that area; but which is coming only from a limited number of countries. There is an entirely different reality of stability and growth in Africa”, explained Farnesina Director General Luigi Marras in an interview for Ministry’s multimedia group […]

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16 June 2015

Maputo – A week of Italian culture

Italian Culture Week is under way in Maputo and will run until 20 June. The initiative includes piano concerts Hwith performances by DuoKeira, with Michela Chiara Borghese and Sabrina De Carlo. The “Festa do cinema italiano”, with films by directors such as Ettore Scola, Paolo Virzi’, Carlo Mazzacurati and Rocco Papaleo, will also include screenings […]

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Interviews

14 June 2015

Gentiloni: “The nay-saying countries are short-sighted” (La Stampa)

“All of this reluctance to accept the European Commission’s immigration plan seems short-sighted to me”. Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has always taken a cautious approach and avoided any show of triumphalism even when – in mid-May – Italy could have claimed the transformation of the immigration dossier into a shared, European dossier, as a national […]

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12 June 2015

Dei – South Africa: Enel Green Power awarded another 2 wind turbine projects

The South African Ministry of Energy announced it had awarded another 13 solar panel and wind turbine projects within the context of the so-called “over allocation” of the fourth stage of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), after the award in April of contracts for 1,000MW of installed power. In this new […]

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