As the crisis unfolded Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – generally well-received by North African governments despite her extreme right-wing past – played to her base by calling for Italy to impose visa controls on arrivals from Spain...

Kenya signed a similar deal with Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni in April but opposition politicians in Nairobi have complained that the immunity provisions within the France-Kenya agreement could shield foreign soldiers from local prosecution...

Kenya became the first African country to agree a four-year Action Plan with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government as part of the Mattei Plan which aims to boost Italian investment and political influence in a group of north central and east African states...

The gathering in Addis Ababa welcomed Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as guest of honour the day after she hosted an Italy-Africa summit on site...

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni returned once more to Tunisia at the end of July to ink the Mattei Plan with President Kaïs Saïed...

Data showing that irregular crossings from Tunisia and Libya fell by 59% to 66 766 in 2024 prompted Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and the European Union to trumpet the success of the bloc's migration control (AC Vol 66 No 2 Accentuate the innovative)...

To some scepticism Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni used a ‘Mattei Plan' summit co-hosted with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Rome to promise to halve the debts of low-middle income African nations...

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni named the AfDB as Italy's main strategic financial partner for its Mattei Plan for Africa...

Italy's conservative Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has cultivated Saïed...