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2 March 2016
Djibouti – Cooperation, vanguard and innovation for the new Balbalà Hospital

Over the last two decades, Italian cooperation efforts have concentrated on improving the living conditions of the inhabitants of Djibouti, with a special focus on the health sector. In this perspective, the latest project realised in the former French colony shows that these efforts are unrelenting thanks to the paediatrics, gynaecology and infectious diseases departments […]

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26 February 2016
Hargeisa – Sant’Anna-Maeci: Italy spearheads peace efforts in Somalia‎‎

“The course confirms its topicality but also the need to support, through targeted training courses, the African personnel in professionally managing the crisis and the post-war reconstruction efforts,” said Andrea de Guttry, full professor of international law, the Rector’s delegate for high-level training activities and Director of the Istituto Dirpolis (Diritto, Politica, Sviluppo) of the […]

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23 February 2016
Khartoum – Cooperation and migration, Italy in the forefront in Sudan

Italy is in the forefront in managing the migration phenomenon in a strategic Country like Sudan. This was confirmed by a delegation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and of the Ministry of the Interior during a recent joint mission to Khartoum. The mission was made up by Foreign Ministry representatives […]

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22 February 2016
الوزير “دجينتيلوني” في تركيا

يقوم وزير الشؤون الخارجية “باولو دجينتيلوني” بزيارة إلى تركيا من 21 إلى 23 فبراير/شباط الحالي في مهمة سيشارك خلالها بلقاء ثنائي مع نظيره التركي “مفلوت شافوسوغلو” وفي منتدى “شراكة المستوى الأعلى” الثالث حول الصومال. بعد مرور أشهر قليلة على محادثات “بروكسيل” في الثاني من ديسمبر/كانون الأول على هامش لقاء حلف شمال الأطلسي الوزاري، سيُقابل وزير […]

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22 February 2016
Foreign Minister Gentiloni in Turkey

Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni will be in Turkey from February 21 to 23 to attend a bilateral meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Çavuşoğlu and the third meeting of the High Level Partnership Forum on Somalia. Only a few months after the talks in Brussels on the sidelines of the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting of […]

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Press Releases
18 February 2016
Italy allocates 3.5 million euros in humanitarian aid to UNHCR to tackle current emergencies in Yemen, the Central African Republic and Cameroon

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has approved the allocation of 3.5 million euros to support UNHCR’s emergency interventions in Yemen, the Central African Republic and Cameroon. The three interventions are being shared with the newly-established Italian Agency for Development Cooperation. Thanks to the contribution of 1.5 million euros for Yemen, UNHCR will […]

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Press Releases
16 February 2016
Gentiloni meets Foreign Minister of the Republic of Congo

Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Paolo Gentiloni received the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Congo, Jean-Claude Gakosso, today at Farnesina. The focus of the talks was the countries’ bilateral relations. Italy is a historical partner of Congo Brazzaville. Following an entrepreneurial  mission  led by Prime Minister Renzi in July 2014, […]

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5 February 2016
Khartoum – Italian businesses looking to invest in energy and agriculture in Sudan

Italian entrepreneurs are heading to Sudan with an important business mission, promoted by the Italian embassy in Khartoum, born of the constant institutional efforts to multiply reciprocal business opportunities. The mission follows the Economic Forum on Sudan, held in July 2015 with the collaboration of the Assafrica association, and the recent visit to Rome by […]

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Press Releases
1 February 2016
Under-Secretary of State Della Vedova to Attend Informal Ministerial Meeting of EU Ministers for Trade and Development in Amsterdam

Under-secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Benedetto Della Vedova will attend the informal meeting of EU ministers for Development and Trade in Amsterdam today and tomorrow. During the meeting chaired by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, the ministers will exchange opinions about the development of a […]

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Press Releases
28 January 2016
Ethiopia: Italy to contribute 1 million euros to WFP and FAO for food emergency

In response to the serious emergency situation caused by the “El Nino” climate phenomenon, that for months has been affecting the Horn of Africa, and Ethiopia in particular, the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has decided to allocate one million euros for food security interventions in Ethiopia. The Italian cooperation funding will […]

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28 January 2016
Sudan – Italo-Russian archaeological mission “sets an example”

The discoveries made by an Italo-Russian archaeological mission in the Abu Erteila site in Sudan have aroused great interest. The mission at the site, about 200 kilometres north of Khartoum, is headed by Professor Eugenio Fantusati of the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (IsMEO). Among the finds, of particular significance is a […]

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