{"id":12716,"date":"2024-01-27T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2024-01-27T11:34:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T11:34:33","slug":"italy-mattei-plan-for-african-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/27\/italy-mattei-plan-for-african-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy: &#8220;Mattei Plan&#8221; for African development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the 28th and 29th of January, the Italian government will hold the much-anticipated Africa summit.<br \/>\nOver 50 delegations, mainly from African countries, as well as EU leaders and representatives of international organizations, will arrive in the Italian capital for the occasion.<br \/>\nThe purpose of the conference is to present Italy\u2019s strategic plan that aims to review the country\u2019s approach to the African continent.<br \/>\nItalian premiere, Giorgia Meloni, unveiled a \u201cnon-predatory\u201d approach aimed at fostering cooperation. Though critics argue that the plan, dubbed \u201cMattei Plan\u201d, after Enrico Mattei, an Italian public administrator who, in the 1950s, advocated for Italy to support North African governments to grow their economies and develop their natural resources. Seventy years on, Meloni is showcasing the Mattei plan as the crown jewel of her foreign policy, aiming to once again renew Italy\u2019s approach to the African continent. As things stand, however, the plan is far from comprehensive.<br \/>\nThe plan is due to cost around 3 million euros a year and has a four-year duration. The goal is to enhance energy cooperation with African countries and help them in different areas including health, education, and other several other sectors, but its main purpose is to address the root economic causes of mass migration from Africa. Some critics have argued it lacks a clear strategy.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have all been waiting to find out more about the content of the plan. But as clarified by a government\u2019s decree, the strategy will be outlined starting from this conference and in the weeks to come. We\u2019d like the action plan to mainly focus on Africa\u2019s needs and the needs of the states and the countries \u2019civil societies. We\u2019d also like to see the use of a \u201cbottom-up approach\u201d meaning that nothing is being imposed from above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events\u00a0 On the 28th and 29th of January, the Italian government will hold the much-anticipated Africa summit. Over 50 delegations, mainly from African countries, as well as EU leaders and representatives of international organizations, will arrive in the Italian capital for the occasion. The purpose of the conference is to present Italy\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12718,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12716\/revisions\/12718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}