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26 August 2014

Maputo – FACIM gets under way, Italy top exhibitor

The 50th edition of the multi-sector FACIM international trade fair is under way in Maputo, Mozambique. More than 90 Italian exhibitors firms make Italy the country with the broadest representation, organisers of which include ICE-Agenzia per la promozione all’estero e l’internazionalizzazione delle imprese italiane (for the promotion abroad and internationalisation of Italian businesses), which have […]

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26 August 2014

Mozambico: Pistelli, bene accordo a Maputo tra Governo mozambicano e Renamo

L’Italia accoglie con molta soddisfazione l’accordo raggiunto a Maputo il 24 agosto tra il Governo mozambicano e Renamo per porre fine alle tensioni politico-militari, cessare le ostilità e ricostituire le condizioni di pace e stabilità nel Paese. “Si tratta – ha dichiarato il Vice Ministro degli Esteri Lapo Pistelli- di un successo di tutto il […]

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26 August 2014

Mozambico: Pistelli, bene accordo a Maputo tra Governo mozambicano e Renamo

Italy welcomed the news of the 24 August signing in Maputo of an accord between the Mozambican government and Renamo aimed at ending political and military tensions, halting the hostilities and reinstating conditions for peace and stability. “This is a victory”, declared Deputy Foreign Minister Lapo Pistelli, “for all Mozambicans, and a major step toward […]

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22 August 2014

Italy–Cameroon – Ambassador meets civil engineering students

The Italian Ambassador in Cameroon, Samuela Isopi, recently visited the National Advanced School of Public Works (NASPW) in Yaoundé. The School is engaged in a joint training programme with the University of Padua’s Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. Since 2010, the NASPW and the University have jointly provided training for 580 young Cameroonians, […]

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19 August 2014

6th Italian Film Festival in Maputo

“La Grande Bellezza” is the film selected to open the 6th Italian Film Festival in Maputo this evening, 19 August 2014, at the city’s Teatro Avenida. The Festival, which runs until 23 August, is being organised with the collaboration of “Il Sorpasso”, an Italian arts organisation in Lisbon, with support from private sponsors. In coming […]

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12 August 2014

Dei/Sole 24 Ore – Kenya: Marangoni (tyre retreading) joins the market

A new plant for the retreading of tyres for earthmoving equipment near the Nairobi industrial area opened recently. Local investor AutoXpress, the most important Kenyan business in the tyre sector, has imported the entire retreading system from the Italian Marangoni company (checking systems, buffers, packagers and autoclaves), and the plant employs more than 40 persons. […]

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8 August 2014

Italy-South Africa – Growing Science and Technology Cooperation

Italy is strengthening cooperation with South Africa through a 2014-16 executive science and technology programme signed during the 5th meeting of the Joint Italy-South Africa Commission in Pretoria. The Italian delegation was led by Italian ambassador to Pretoria Vincenzo Schioppa, while South Africa’s was led by Director General for the International resources of the Department […]

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6 August 2014

Diplomazia Economica Italiana – 6 August: Latest World News, compiled in collaboration with Il Sole 24 ORE Radiocor

Kenya: leaders meet on corridor towards Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta chaired a meeting in Nairobi with his counterparts from Uganda, Ethiopia and South Sudan to discuss the financing of and next steps in the Lamu Port, Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor Project. The project is intended to connect Kenya’s port […]

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6 August 2014

Expo 2015 .- La Nigeria firma contratto di partecipazione (in translation)

Ci sarà anche la Nigeria all’Esposizione universale di Milano del 2015. E lo farà in grande stile. Il paese africano, che nei giorni scorsi ha firmato il contratto di partecipazione all’evento, ha optato per il lotto più grande disponibile (il dodicesimo per estensione dell’area espositiva). La firma, ottenuta anche grazie alla costante attività di sensibilizzazione […]

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5 August 2014

Ebola epidemic. Foreign Ministry following the phenomenon, responds to WHO appeal to donors with 200,000 euros for Guinea

The Italian Foreign Ministry is carefully monitoring the Ebola virus epidemic on the African continent, and has responsed to the World Health Organization’s appeal to donors with a contribution of 200,000 euros for Guinea. With the worsening of the situation on a regional scale, further Italian interventions in coordination with the WHO and the other […]

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31 July 2014

Dei/Sole 24 Ore – South Africa: TerniEnergia signs 2 solar panel installation contracts

TerniEnergia signed two contracts for the construction of industrial-size solar panel installations with a combined power potential of 148.5 MWP (Megawatt-Piek). The contracts call for TerniEnergia Projects, under the control of TerniEnergia South Africa, to build the installations through “EPC contracts”, i.e. turn-key operations, for an overall value of 147 million euro. (Il Sole 24 […]

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28 July 2014

Maputo – Embassy of Italy offers literary aperitifs

The Embassy of Italy in Maputo Mozambique has begun a cycle of literary aperitifs in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society. They are dedicated to poetry, and recently offered an opportunity to announce the local winners of the “Nosside” prize who won honourable mention for their verse in either Portuguese or the local language, in […]

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