US EditionItalian PM Meloni visits Ethiopia and confirms her ambitions in Africa
Meloni reviewed €1.4 billion in projects under Italy’s Mattei Plan with expanded focus on 14 African countries covering energy, infrastructure, and healthcare sectors.
- On Friday, February 13, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni convened the second Italy‑Africa Summit in Addis Ababa, the first time the meeting was held on African soil, bringing the Mattei Plan to Africa.
- After taking office in October 2022, Meloni pledged to prioritize migration, and the Italian government presented the summit as a rapid step with a `peer-to-peer` and `non-predatory` approach to stop sea arrivals to Lampedusa, Italy.
- At the Addis Ababa Convention Centre, Meloni reviewed the Mattei Plan's expanded scope from nine to fourteen focus countries, covering five pillars and mobilising projects via the Africa Fund, Italian Climate Fund, World Bank, IFAD, and African Development Bank.
- By addressing the AU during AU week, Italy aims to stake a claim in Europe‑Africa leadership, with Raffaele Marchetti of Luiss University saying the plan signals `a more independent international role`.
- Amid AU week, Ethiopia's Ethiopian National Defence Force redeployments since February 7 underpin a tense backdrop, while Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned the situation is `highly volatile`.
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The President of the Italian Council came to Addis Ababa to defend her Mattei plan for investment in Africa. Despite some reluctance, she managed to bring together many heads of state during an evening and took the opportunity to deliver a speech.
She?s an italian girl! . Under the almost summer sky of Addis Ababa, between the skeletons of semi abandoned skyscrapers and the vultures flying over the Convention...
The Mattei Plan, the great strategic commitment of the Government of Giorgia Meloni to lead development in Africa and curb irregular immigration, faces this Friday its first major operational review with the Italy-Africa summit in Ethiopia, to which the Italian Prime Minister will turn. After two years of deployment and an initial investment of €5.5 billion, Rome seeks to consolidate a model of cooperation that runs away from welfareism and reli…
The premier absent from the conference on security, celebrates the revolutionary Mattei plan in Ethiopia. Tajani minimizes Merz's words
Summit advances Italy’s Mattei Plan to boost investment-led partnerships in energy, infrastructure, agriculture, training - Anadolu Ajansı
By SAMUEL GETACHEW and EVELYNE MUSAMBI ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Italy pledged to deepen cooperation with African countries on Friday during its second summit with Africa, the first held on African soil, with the aim of reviewing projects underway in critical sectors such as energy and infrastructure. The projects are part of the so-called Mattei Plan for Africa, launched in 2024, which seeks to promote investment-driven cooperation rather th…
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