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26 March 2020

Vale group removes Brazilian workers from Mozambique
As the Covid-19 pandemic reaches Mozambique, Vale decides to repatriate expatriates working at its Moatize coal mine, one of Mozambique's major exporters.
19 March 2020

Covid-19 could cost African oil exporters USD 65 billion
The Covid-19 pandemic is taking a severe impact in the economies of China, Africa’s major trading partner, and also Europe and North America.
28 January 2020

Brazilian solar attracts Chinese investors
Chinese companies like JinkoSolar and BYD are rapidly increasing their solar module manufacturing capacity in Brazil, despite the anti-environmental stance of President Jair Bolsonaro, with a range of Brazilian state organisations and regulators supporting the renewable energy boom that looks set to revolutionise power production in South America’s biggest country.
14 January 2020

Is this peak oil for Brazil?
Production is higher than ever but the latest of Brazil's oil licensing round attracted very little interest from the foreign firms, suggesting that the boom may be short-lived, unless either the government improves the investment regime or international oil prices rise substantially.
15 October 2019

Bolsonaro seeks detente with China
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has significantly backtracked on the anti-Chinese comments he made in the run-up to his election victory.
03 August 2019

Brazil and Portugal lagging in Forum Macao
A little over a year ago, Brazil guaranteed that it would play a bigger role in Forum Macao’s activities in the future. But the change of administration in Brasília, now under President Jair Bolsonaro, has brought that effort to a near standstill.
23 April 2019

Testing times for Brazilian ports
Jair Bolsonaro has been president of Brazil for less than four months but his promises on transport sector deregulation are already under pressure.
03 April 2019

Should Brazil face towards Washington or Beijing?
There has been a lot of discussion whether Brazil will have to choose between China and the U.S. as its main trading partner. Yet despite Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s praise of his U.S.
15 March 2019

Brazil-China economic relationship marked by unstoppable growth
China has been Brazil’s biggest global trade partner since 2009, ousting the United States from the top position it had held in the eight decades since overtaking the United Kingdom in the 1930s.
03 December 2018

New cable provides Angola a window on the world
The South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) was completed in September, making it the first fibre submarine cable between Africa and the Americas. Running from Fortaleza in north-eastern Brazil to Sangano in Angola it should encourage the Angolan government to press ahead with the reform of its own telecoms sector, which remains underdeveloped in comparison with most other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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