The Director of AIP (Agence Ivoirienne de Presse) Oumou Barry Sana and the CEO of Agi – Italian Journalistic Agency – Gianni DiGiovanni signed today in Abidjan, in the presence of the Minister of Communication of the Ivory Coast, Affoussiata Bamba Lamine, and the Ambassador of Italy in the Ivory Coast, Alfonso Di Riso, a Memorandum of Understanding which launches an editorial partnership between the Ivory Coast and Italy.
The agreement provides for the cooperation between the two agencies, a key player in the international communication markets, in editorial production, both in the field of primary information and in integrated and multimedia communication activities, in professional training and in the organization of events.
The Director of AIP Oumou Barry Sana underlined that "the signing of this memorandum of understanding with the Agi is part of our strategy of communication and the development of professional relations between news agencies, which particularly envisages exchanges of news from every nature, multimedia contents and professional experiences. Furthermore, this will lead to a growing circulation of news on the Ivory Coast, especially in Italy, to make our country better known, which today represents the crossroads of West Africa in economic, cultural and social matters. AIP news is distributed to our partners and to all the Ivorian press. Press agencies are the only subjects capable of guaranteeing the reliability of news and consequently disseminate reliable, diversified, plural and measured information; hence their importance in the media landscape”.
"This agreement further strengthens Agi's presence in Africa, as evidenced by our 10 correspondents in key points of the continent and by agreements with partners in Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Libya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tunisia" he commented Gianni Di Giovanni, CEO of Agi. “ A commitment that reflects the leading role that Africa has in global growth. In the energy sector alone, for example, points out the World Energy Outlook 2014, published by the IEA, 30% of oil & gas discoveries in recent years are in sub-Saharan Africa, and in 2040 the continent will overtake Russia, becoming the first gas exporter in the world. We will be able to seize the opportunities of this rapidly evolving scenario only if we know how to enrich mutual knowledge, and press agencies have a fundamental role in disseminating correct, timely and in-depth information".
