Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, top center, poses with African leaders and dignitaries at the Senate for the start of an Italy - Africa summit, in Rome, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024.

Italy’s Ethiopian Empire The 1935-1941 war in the A.O.I. (Africa Orientale Italiana) - Italy's empire in the horn of Africa, involved Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia. The 1935-36 invasion of Ethiopia ...

F rom the land that was once Ethiopia and is now part of Italian East Africa, Italy up to last week had launched two drives into British colonies—one southward into Kenya, the other westward ...