(Adnkronos) – Access to water resources and their sustainable management are the “cornerstones” of the government’s aid to Africa and its five-billion euro blueprint to spur the continent’s economic development, Italy’s deputy foreign minister Edmondo Cirielli said on Wednesday.
“Access to water and the sustainable management of water resources represent flagship sectors of @cooperazione_it in Africa, as well as being pillars of the #Mattei Plan,” a foreign ministry post on X cited Cirielli as telling an event at the Senate in Rome.
“We are working on key projects in Libya, Tunisia, and Ethiopia to tangibly strengthen food self-sufficiency, environmental sustainability, and improve hygiene and sanitary conditions in our partner countries,” Cirielli said.
Cirielli also thanked Italian businesses and economists for their “experience and expertise,” according to the post.
The Italian government’s overseas agency AICS director, Marco Rusconi, outlined 58 development projects in Africa worth some 57 million euros at the ‘Water resources in Italy and Africa’ conference held at the Senate.
