(ANSA) – ROME, APR 15 – Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday that her government intends to present a plan for Africa named after Eni founder Enrico Mattei in the autumn after arriving in Addis Ababa for a two-day visit to Ethiopia.<\/p>\n
“We are working on a series of initiatives regarding Africa,” she said as she arrived at her hotel.<\/p>\n
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“The next Italy-Africa intergovernmental summit, which takes place every two years, will be in the autumn and it could be the occasion to present our Mattei plan.<\/span><\/p>\n “In the meantime we are working in cooperation with the African countries because you cannot think you know the best solutions without dialogue with those who are directly concerned”.<\/p>\n Meloni has been calling on Europe to boost aid and develop stronger cooperation with Africa as part of a strategy to reduce the number of migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n The agenda in Addis Ababa includes meetings with Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed, who was in Rome in February, and African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat.<\/p>\n Italy considers the “stability and integrity” of Ethiopia to be a priority for national interest due to its position on the migratory route from the Horn of Africa to North Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n The country hosts 823,000 refugees and 4.2 million internally displaced people. The humanitarian crisis and conflict in neighbouring Somalia are reportedly to be the subject of a bilateral meeting with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and of a separate meeting with Ethiopian and Somali representatives on Saturday.<\/p>\n Before leaving, Meloni will also visit the Galileo Galilei comprehensive school in the Ethiopian capital, the largest Italian school outside the country with approximately 900 pupils. (ANSA).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (ANSA) – ROME, APR 15 – Premier Giorgia Meloni said Friday that her government intends to present a plan for Africa named after Eni founder Enrico Mattei in the autumn after arriving in Addis Ababa for a two-day visit to Ethiopia. “We are working on a series of initiatives regarding Africa,” she said as she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":416132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416133,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416131\/revisions\/416133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}