Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met her Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed for the second Italy-Africa Summit in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia on Friday. In her address, the Italian leader said that her government had continued to assert its major ambitions for the African continent to provide work and prospects for its best energies, while being able to rely on stable governments and dynamic societies. She emphasized that Italy had no interest in exploiting migration to obtain cheap labor and vowed to tackle its root causes.

Source: Ethiopian News February 14, 2026 15:30 UTC