Africa

Diplomatic Network

8 February 2022

Dakar, Ambassador De Vito summons UN Italian personnel

In order to promote dialogue on the regional situation in the Sahel, exchange relevant information and contacts and analyse the ongoing projects, Italy’s Ambassador in Dakar, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, has summoned over 50 Italian officials working at the Dakar-based offices of the United Nations and of other international organisations. The meeting – which addressed, […]

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Diplomatic Network

2 February 2022

Italy at Dakar Music Expo 2022

The Italian Cultural Institute in Dakar will take part in the third edition of Dakar Music Expo (DMX), the event scheduled for 3-6 February 2022 which celebrates African music and creativity. The final display of the event will take place on 6 February at the Italian Cultural Institute, while the initiatives of the first three […]

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Diplomatic Network

31 January 2022

Kenya: agreement signed on the Integrated Development Programme

The Italian Ambassador to Kenya, Alberto Pieri, and the Kenyan Treasury Minister, Ukur Yatani, signed an agreement to implement the Malindi Integrated Social Health Development Programme – Phase II. The signing took place in Nairobi on 26 January 2022, in the presence of the Director of the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation Office in Nairobi, Fabio Melloni. […]

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Diplomatic Network

28 January 2022

Italy, Torre del Greco supports Tanzanian Albinos

In the framework of the Italian and Tanzanian civil society relations, Ambassador Marco Lombardi joined today the ceremony of delivery of spectacles and sunglasses to the Tanzania   Albinism Society from Italy, Torre del Greco, Ottica di MarioGiordano and Alfonso Vitiello of D’Elia Company. Lombardi, in underling the importance of “People-to-People” relations between Italy and Tanzania, […]

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Press Releases

26 January 2022

Sereni on Africa: healthcare and vaccine aid Italy’s top priority

Today, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation attended the Salute e Sviluppo: l’impegno per l’Africa meeting at the Farnesina. Organised by NGOs Amref Health Africa – Italia and Codeway, the meeting centred on the findings of an Ipsos survey carried out on behalf of Amref Italia, titled La narrazione sull’Africa (The Africa Narrative). […]

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In detail

26 January 2022

Iveco opens vehicle factory in Ivory Coast

An assembly unit of Iveco Daily motor vehicles was recently inaugurated in Abidjan, at the factory of the local transportation company Sotra-Industries. The new plant is expected to churn out over 1,000 units per year and will manufacture the minibus version of the Daily model, aptly renamed Daily Ivoire. The new vehicles will run on […]

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Press Releases

25 January 2022

Latest developments in Burkina Faso

Italy follows with concern the situation that is unfolding in Burkina Faso. It firmly reaffirms its disapproval of the use of force as an instrument for taking power and calls for respect for the republican institutions, in the hope that constitutional order may be re-established as soon as possible.

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Press Releases

22 December 2021

Foreign Ministry Note – Minister Di Maio meets the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Somalia, Abdisaid Muse Ali

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, yesterday held talks with the Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Abdisaid Muse Ali. In congratulating him on his new appointment, Minister Di Maio emphasised the deep and historical roots of the bilateral relationship, expressing the desire to further strengthen cooperation in […]

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Press Releases

15 December 2021

The Farnesina Announces: Italy is supplying medical equipment to Libya to aid in fighting COVID-19

A humanitarian shipment of more than 10 tons of medical equipment (ventilators, surgical masks and protective garments) reached the port of Tripoli on December 14 to assist that country in its battle against COVID-19. The material was made available by the support structure to the extraordinary Commissioner for the COVID-19 emergency, Gen. Francesco Paolo Figliuolo […]

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Diplomatic Network

15 December 2021

Angola: anti-Covid-19 vaccines arrive from Italy

1,814,400 doses of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine, donated by Italy to Angola as part of the COVAX initiative, in collaboration with UNICEF, have arrived at Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport, Luanda. The vaccine handover ceremony (the first donation in Angola) took place yesterday and was attended on behalf of Italy by Gabriele Magnini, […]

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Diplomatic Network

13 December 2021

Italian fashion at the Swahili Fashion Week

In the framework of the Embassy of Italy promotional activity in Tanzania, three Italian designers participated to the Swahili Fashion Week, held in Dar es Salaam from 3 to 5 of December, 2021. It is the most important fashion event in Africa after Johannesburg fashion week. More than 90 designers worldwide joined the event. On […]

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Diplomatic Network

9 December 2021

Pretoria, long-distance dialogue on video art

The Italian Cultural Institute in Pretoria and the Luigi Di Sarro Centre organised a webinar, a long-distance dialogue between Italy and South Africa with the protagonists of the Video Art Awards (VAA), which encourages and promotes the production of works using the moving image. It was the third edition of the Award, conceived and promoted […]

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