Africa

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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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11 June 2015

Dei – Ghana – Italian architects build new GNPC headquarters

A group of young Italian architects (under 40) of the Bicuadro, O.C.R.A and Studio 3+1 firms will build the headquarters of the Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) in Accra, under the leadership of architect Stefano Farcomeni. The group was awarded the 80 million euro project after an international invitational competition. Construction is scheduled to begin […]

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8 June 2015

Dei – Ivory Coast: San Pedro Port project gets under way

The ambitious refurbishment and repurposing of the Port of San Pedro got under way in the Ivory Coast, a project valued at approximately 1.45 billion EUR. A study phase was launched back in 2014 and should be completed within 2015. The project will be built in two stages: the first, with a predicted investment of […]

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8 June 2015

Expo: Gentiloni at UN Forum on Africa, Investing in youth to help Africa

“There are 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24 in Africa. I am convinced that investments must target them, because they are the future”, said Minister for Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni during a United Nations conference held on 8 and 9 June at the Milan EXPO dedicated to the least developed […]

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27 May 2015

DEI – Ethiopia: Teff flour exports to resume in July

Starting in July 2015, 48 Ethiopian companies will be able to resume exports of teff flour. Teff is a widely used food grain in the country. The government has in part removed the export ban initially established in 2006 owing to fears that food production would fail to keep pace with rising demand. Various parties, […]

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