Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on
Monday approved a State airplane to airlift 31 children adopted
by Italian families that have been held up for months in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
"I just gave the go-ahead: an airplane of the Italian state
is leaving for the (Democratic Republic of the) Congo to bring
back the adopted children blocked for months. #acasa," wrote
Renzi on the social network Twitter.
Twenty-four Italian couples have been unable to bring their
adopted children home from the DRC despite having completed the
adoption process due to lack of final clearance by Congolese
authorities.
The government in Kinshasa in September suspended
permissions on all international adoptions out of suspicion of
irregularities, but admitted that none of procedures in question
concerned Italy.
Former integration minister Cecile Kyenge, who was also in
charge of international adoptions - and was herself DRC-born -
in November went on mission to the country and garnered
reassurances of a positive outcome.
After continued standstill, however, the Italian government
sent a delegation to the African country to try to unblock the
situation, so far without success.
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