ROMA (ITALPRESS) – A country of over 55 million inhabitants with a growing GDP and one of the most interesting African markets for Italy. It is Kenya, which in these days has seen its highest institutional representatives, William Samoei Ruto, president of the Republic of Kenya, and the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Musalia Mudavadi, visiting Rome. A two-day meeting with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella; with the premier, Giorgia Meloni; a Business Forum and continued today in the meeting “Kenya: a great country looking to the future”, organized by the MedOr Italian Foundation and Luiss. “ Kenya is a dynamic and far-sighted nation and is at the heart of Africa’s transformation, it has a strategic position as a crossroads of international routes, with over 55 million inhabitants, mainly young and educated, is drawing a path towards the future anchored to resilience and reforms – said President Ruto during the meeting –. We have turned Kenya into the sixth economy of Africa, restored investors’ trust, made significant steps towards universal health coverage, Kenya is a democracy. Yet our greatest strength lies in people, wherever there is an opportunity the Kenyans stand to seize it.” “We are going through a period in which many of the global order certainties we have had for decades are vacillating, the conflict has returned to the center of international affairs, from Ukraine to the Middle East, business routes have assumed a renewed strategic significance, security is no longer limited to territorial borders but extends to cyberspace as well as energy security. Climate pressure is no longer projections – Ruto added – but a reality for millions of people in the world. In such an unstable world we have to ask what a capable state defines? I think we have to rely on reactivity, collaboration, innovation, resilience and ambition. Without work and opportunities we will have risks of instability, industrialization remains the best way to create a resilient economy and, if we act correctly, young Africans will not be a burden for the system but one of the greatest engines of growth and innovation”. “Behind 2050 – he explained – a person out of four will live in Africa, this is a reality for economic growth and demand is not only if Africa will applaud the future, but if we build it together.” The president of the MedOr Foundation, Marco Minniti, recalled how the visit to Italy was “a great success” for the relations of our countries and a “solid friendship. At this moment God only from what is needed strategic alliances because we live in a world characterized by a radical uncertainty that comes from the fact that the old world order has ended forever. We have war in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Iran and, if we want to build a stable and lasting peace path that represents a great challenge for humanity, we must think that this project aims to build a new world order. Ruto’s visit – Minniti highlighted – coincides with that in Africa of the Holy Father who brought two words: peace and dignity. The journey of the Holy Father tells us that, if we want to build a new world order, we must know that without the south of the world it is not possible to do so and Africa and Kenya are an important reference very high. The Mattei Plan, innovative and unprecedented project, is getting great results that we want to implement. I dream that the Mattei Plan becomes the Plan of the whole of Europe because it is all Europe that must look to Africa. Africa provides raw materials and EU technologies and resources for development, this can allow the start of a new world order”. Finally, Minniti stressed that immigration “is not an emergency, migrations are a structural data of the planet, we had them in the past, we have them today and we will have them in the future; what we can do is govern migration flows by creating legal channels. In addition, African youth is collaborating more and more to the idea that it must form, in Kenya the new generations are very formed, among the most formed of the entire South of the world. This is the game we have to play. Moreover, we need to develop a more comprehensive view of the balances of the planet, in Africa there are tensions and can form destabilizations, it is an interest of all to avoid Africa being destabilized, we must understand that in a phase of the history of the world where uncertainty seems to dominate, we face the strategic position of each country. Italy and Kenya are two twin countries because Italy is a meeting point between the West and the South and Kenya is crucial for the balances of Africa. This is the guarantee of our present and our future.” According to Gaetano Quagliariello, Dean Luiss School of Government, we are in “a phase of deep redefinition in the relations between Italy and Africa. His presence is the testimony of a paradigm shift where Africa is no longer the continent of the future but is the protagonist of the present and Kenya is one of the most dynamic engines. On December 10, we signed at Confindustria a memorandum of understanding for the direction booth for training in the Mattei Plan – he added. This body is not only a consultation table but a strategic structure aimed at coordinating training activities to ensure that vocational training becomes a pillar for autonomy and development. Kenya confirms our partner and over the years Luiss has had the privilege of forming many Kenyan students, this solid foundation of pupils is not only an academic vant but also a concrete perspective for the future; it is through them that excellence meets the challenges of emerging markets. For us training is the most valuable infrastructure that can be built, without a trained leadership class there cannot be a solid economy.”.
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