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Italian Development Cooperation and Community of Sant’Egidio. The Iraqi Government receives humanitarian aid for IDPs in Fallujah.

  Today, 31st October 2016, the Ambassador of Italy to Iraq, Marco Carnelos delivered a speech to the Iraqi press during the delivery and taking in charge by Iraqi Authorities of the first tranche of medical emergency supplies donated by the Community of Sant’Egidio in order to alleviate the serious conditions of IDPs in Fallujah. The humanitarian […]

N. 5 SCHOLARSHIPS TO ATTEND THE MASTER DIPLOMA IN ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES (MDAES) AT THE EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF PARMA, FOR YOUNG GRADUATES.

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that it will grant five (5) scholarships of nine months each (starting November 2016) in order to attend the courses of the Diploma in Advanced European Studies (MDAES) of the European College of Parma for the academic year 2016-2017. The scholarships are limited to young graduates. Candidates must […]

Prime Minister Abadi attended the graduation cerimony for two training courses held by Carabinieri in favour of the Iraqi police forces.

  On July 21st, at the premises of Camp Dublin – base for the Training Mission of the Carabinieri in favour of the Iraqi police forces – it has been held the graduation cerimony of the fifth “Law and Order” course and of the third “Crowd and Riot control” course. The cerimony was attended by […]

The first bone marrow’s transplant in the history of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan has been realized by an Italian medical team

At the Hiwa Cancer Hospital of Sulaymaniyah (Autonomous Region of Iraqi Kurdistan) an Italian medical team has successfully completed the first bone marrow’s transplant in the history of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. The transplant is the result of a training project addressed to Kurdish health care personnel realized by the Italian non-governmental organization ICU, coordinated […]

An updated contribution regarding the Stand By Agreement finalized in favour of Iraq

On the 19th of May , during a meeting in Amman between the Iraqi Finance Minister Hashyar Zebari and some representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), both parties have reached significant agreements regarding the new financial aids that Iraq will receive in the next three years. In this context, the negotiations led to successfully agree […]

The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi sent a message of condolences to the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider AlAbadi expressing dismay for the recent terrorist bombing in Baghdad

Iraq and oil

According to the latest “Oil Market report” of the International Energy Agency (IEA), after the terrible fall of the oil price recorded in 2015 and at the beginning of the current year, the oil market seems to have reached a new equilibrium. Indeed, the analysts expected for the first semester of 2016 a progressive rebalancing […]

The battle of Fallujah: an important testing ground.

In the last weeks the Iraqi military forces – with the support of several units of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) and the collaboration of Sunni armed groups – started the operation “Breaking Terrorism” to free Fallujah, one of the biggest cities of the governorate of the Anbar, held by the militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State […]

Italy donates one million euros for supporting ICRC and UNHCR facing the humanitarian crisis in Fallujah

The Italian Cooperation supports the international efforts in facing the humanitarian crisis in Fallujah through two multilateral contributions for a total amount of one million euros to endorse the activities of the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to the latest UN’s reports, almost 90.000 people […]