A career diplomat Orlando's appointment looks like a significant concession to Giorgia Meloni's right-wing government in Rome which has spent recent months trying to increase cooperation on energy access and migration control...

Having seen its oil and gas major Eni sign an $8 billion gas deal with the Libyan National Oil Corp in January Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has made clear that she is willing to pay more to Tripoli...

A week after the sinking of a boat carrying several hundred migrants off the Calabrian coast in southern Italy which killed more than 60 people European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni praising her government's tough migration policies...

Recent visits from the foreign ministers of France and Germany Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock respectively to Addis Ababa and a successful European tour by Abiy hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni signals a slow resumption of European support and investment...

While business executives talked commerce Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's foreign and interior ministers engaged with their counterparts on reducing the flow of illegal migrants from Italy a key plank of Meloni's policies (see box How gas is changing the Mediterranean map)...

At the end of January the Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni was in Algiers signing a deal with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune under which Italy would obtain a further 9bcm a year...

Such are the pressures that a major social explosion cannot be ruled out which would add to the already high numbers of Tunisians looking to cross the Mediterranean where anti-immigrant Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni awaits...

Rome's government led by Giorgia Meloni of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia has been deadlocked since four boats bearing some 1 000 migrants arrived along the coast with Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi stating 'they must return outside territorial waters and the flag state must take charge of them...

Muhoozi stopped tweeting until late September when he congratulated Italy's far-right leader Giorgia Meloni promising 'like Hannibal to conquer Rome with cows and love'...