Africa

In detail

9 April 2021

Meeting with the Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with the Prime Minister of Mali, Moctar Ouane. The agenda included the relaunch of bilateral relations between Italy and Mali, the cooperation to achieve peace and stability in the Sahel region and the fight against terrorism thanks to the Italian participation in the Takuba […]

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In detail

9 April 2021

Meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zeini Moulaye

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, met with his Malian counterpart, Zeini Moulaye.  The talks focused on the upcoming opening of the Italian Embassy in Mali, in Bamako, aimed at developing relations between the two countries and stabilising the Sahel region.  

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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

2 April 2021

G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement on the situation in Tigray, Ethiopia

We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union are strongly concerned about recent reports on human rights violations and abuses, and violations of international humanitarian law. We condemn the killing of civilians, sexual and gender […]

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Interviews

1 April 2021

Sereni: «Pieno accesso in Tigrai agli operatori umanitari» (Avvenire)

Pieno accesso degli operatori umanitari nella regione del Tigrai e una commissione d’inchiesta indipendente sui crimini contro l’umanità commessi dall’inizio del conflitto. L’Italia sposa la linea della fermezza lanciata dall’Ue e dagli Usa di Biden, ma in una cornice di dialogo con Addis Abeba. Perché le priorità sono la pace, la stabilità e l’unità dell’Etiopia […]

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In detail

26 March 2021

La Repubblica Democratica del Congo, un Paese tra violenza, natura, materie prime

Questa puntata vuole ricordare l’Ambasciatore italiano Luca Attanasio, il carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci e il loro autista Mustapha Milambo, uccisi nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo il 22 febbraio 2021. Lo facciamo puntando i riflettori sulla situazione del Paese, sulla presenza italiana, su cosa si fa e cosa si potrebbe fare di più. Ne parliamo con Giuseppe […]

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Diplomatic Network

24 March 2021

Zambia, a Lusaka iniziativa italiana su economia circolare

L’ambasciata d’Italia in Zambia organizza, da oggi al 26 marzo, presso il Centro culturale italo-zambiano di Lusaka, un’iniziativa sul tema: “Trash. A better future is yet to come, let’s prepare it!”. L’obiettivo è quello di sensibilizzare l’opinione pubblica accrescendo la consapevolezza sulle sfide, ma anche sulle opportunità, per affrontare in maniera sostenibile e lungimirante la gestione dei rifiuti. […]

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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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Diplomatic Network

23 March 2021

Sud Africa, al via la rassegna “Italian Film Focus”

Si svolgerà online dal 25 al 30 marzo la 21a edizione di “Italian Film Focus”, evento promosso da Controluce e dalle Ambasciate d’Italia a Pretoria, Lusaka e Harare, oltre che dal Consolato Generale d’Italia a Johannesburg, dal Consolato d’Italia a Cape Town e dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Pretoria. Sarà disponibile una selezione di film […]

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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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