Siege of Saïo the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, proclaimed the colony of "Africa Orientale Italiana" (AOI, Italian East Africa), formed from Ethiopia (after the Italian victory in the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, fought 3 October 1935 – May 1936) and the existing Italian possessions of Italian Eritrea and Italian Somaliland. On 10 June 1940, Mussolini declared war on Britain and France, which made Italian military forces in Libya a threat to Egypt and those in Italian East Africa a danger to the British and French colonies in East Africa. Italian belligerence also closed the Mediterranean to Allied merchant ships and endangered British supply routes
Made in Africa Foundation projects that it aims to implement between 2012 and 2040, for which Made in Africa Foundation will assist in raising foreign investment and greater public awareness. Below are the events in which either Made in Africa or the Made in Africa Foundation has had an involvement. This event was the nickname Made in Africa gave to the 2007 AU State Banquet that it co-hosted with the then Ghanaian President and AU Chairperson John Kofi Kufor. The event coincided with Ghana's 50th anniversary of independence, 200 years since the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and to mark the occasion rev.