Sergio Mattarella returns to Africa for a state visit to the Ivory Coast, confirming how strategic the continent has become again for Italy after years of inattention which allowed other countries (some European but above all China and Russia) to penetrate the area economically and politically. The President of the Republic will land in Abidjan tomorrow for a state visit, the first ever by an Italian head of state in the country. This is - they report from the Quirinale - "a signal of great attention and a clear political message" to West Africa which will be completed with a follow-up mission to neighboring Ghana where Mattarella will move on Thursday 4 April. This enriches the African political geography of the president who has already visited Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, Ethiopia and Algeria in recent years.
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