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Diplomatic Network
18 September 2018
Guinea: Italy’s commitment to healthcare

Italy continues with its commitment to cooperate with Africa. A financial agreement has just been signed to help towards restoring and developing Guinea’s healthcare system. The aim is to concentrate efforts in rural areas of the country, especially in the regions of Middle Guinea (prefectures of Kindia, Labe, Mamou and Dalaba), Upper Guinea (prefectures of […]

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Press Releases
14 September 2018
Libya: the Italian Development Cooperation Agency and the EU Commussion sign a 50 mln Agreement

Today in Brussels, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the European Commission signed an agreement to allocate 50 million euros to 24 Libyan municipalities to meet the basic needs of the civilian population such as healthcare, education, water and energy supplies and small-scale infrastructure. The announcement was made by the Deputy Minister of […]

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Press Releases
12 September 2018
Meeting between Deputy Minister Del Re and Ambassadors of African countries

Emanuela Del Re, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation met the Ambassadors of African countries today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Rome. The Deputy Minister set out her vision for relations between our country and the African continent during the course of a very useful meeting, stating that […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 September 2018
Italy allocates 500 thousand Euros for school meals in Mali

To make sure minors get at least a meal a day in Mali, where food safety has deteriorated following last year’s poor rainfall, the Italian Development Cooperation has allocated an emergency grant of 500 thousand Euros to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support school meals. The initiative, which is shared by the Italian Agency for Development […]

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Diplomatic Network
10 September 2018
Italia: 500 mila euro per pasti mense scolastiche in Mali

Per garantire almeno un pasto al giorno ai minori in Mali, dove le condizioni di sicurezza alimentare si sono deteriorate a causa delle scarse piogge dello scorso anno, la Cooperazione italiana ha disposto un finanziamento d’emergenza a favore del Programma Alimentare Mondiale(Pam) di 500 mila euro per il sostegno alle mense scolastiche. L’iniziativa, condivisa con […]

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Press Releases
6 September 2018
Third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee: address by Deputy Minister Del Re

In her address at the third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee, Deputy Foreign Minister Emanuela Del Re underscored that our Country is a “giant” of development cooperation on the international scene. She said: “The challenges that development cooperation will have to meet are many: combat poverty, inequalities, the empowerment of women, rights, […]

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Press Releases
6 September 2018
Third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee

The third annual meeting of the Joint Development Cooperation Committee was held at the Farnesina today. The meeting was opened by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Enzo Moavero Milanesi, and chaired by the Deputy Foreign Minister with a portfolio for cooperation, Emanuela Del Re. The Committee was called to decide on the […]

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In detail
3 September 2018
Italy takes part in Berlin conference on Lake Chad Region

Italy is attending the Berlin Conference, on 3 and 4 September, on the Lake Chad crisis where the water, has shrunk 90% over the last few years and whose shores are experiencing a resurgence of the violent extremism of Boko Haram. Italy will confirm the allocation of 15 million euros in 2019 for emergency measures and […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 August 2018
Ethiopia, the Foreign Ministry allocates 500,000 euros for assistance to displaced persons

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in close coordination with the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation, has allocated a 500,000-euro financial contribution to tackle the humanitarian crisis in the regions of Gedeo and West Guji, in Ethiopia. The contribution will mainly be used to provide emergency shelters as well as relief material and support to mobile […]

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Diplomatic Network
2 August 2018
Lebanon: concert in the Temple of Bacchus at Baalbeck

​The Temple of Bacchus in the heart of Baalbek, one of the most important, well-preserved archaeological sites in the Middle East, acted as backdrop to a concert organised as part of the Rossini year celebrations in Lebanon by the Embassy of Italy and the Cultural Institute. The concert forms part of the Baalbeck International Festival […]

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Press Releases
30 July 2018
The Italian Cooperation service arranges to help Niger

In order to tackle a cholera epidemic, at the request of Niger’s authorities, the Foreign Ministry has arranged to help the population of Niger through its Development Cooperation network by sending off an Air Force flight from Pisa today. The flight, which was organised through the cooperation with the United Nations humanitarian response depot (UNHRD) […]

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Diplomatic Network
16 July 2018
Midwives deployed to remote Afghanistan to lower maternal death rate

By midnight, Khurshid, 35, was in serious trouble. Five months pregnant and bleeding heavily, she had passed out at home. Her family carried her unconscious body to the nearest – and only – health station in Afghanistan’s remote, mountainous Chesht-e Sharif District. “Her state shocked me, but I knew quickly that it was a miscarriage,” […]

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