REN – Redes Energeticas Nacionais, SGPS S.A., whose main shareholder is China State Grid, has won an award from the European Commission for its electric charging solution.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Brazilian economy reached USD 52.63 billion between January and July, the highest level for the same period since 2012.

Mozambique has introduced new legislation that reviews specifications of marketable petroleum products, according to official legal database Legis-PALOP+TL.

A water supply project in Angola´s northwestern province of Cabinda, built by the China Railway 20th Bureau Group Angola International Company, will cover 24,000 households or 92 percent of the province's residential communities.

The Government of São Tomé e Príncipe delivered 60 apartments built by China to future buyers, ensuring the completion of the process “smoothly” and “without complaints”.

Doubts are growing about David Chow´s casino complex being completed in Cabo Verde, according to the local press, while the Macao magnate´s group faces financial stress back home.

China was Angola's main source of imports in the second quarter of 2022, with a share of 14.3%, ahead of Portugal, according to official data.

The EDP group, whose biggest shareholder is China Three Gorges, will build a solar power generation park for Amazon.

*Osíris Fernandes de Jesus Costa São Tomé and Príncipe (STP) faces challenges that are typical to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and that affect their ability to deal with shocks. These adverse events always generate significant budgetary imbalances, and force the authorities to adopt fiscal restraint measures in the medium term, which penalizes growth and employment.

Luís Manuel Brás Bernardino* Popular Republic of China is, by many specialists, recognized as a global actor in the framework of International Relations. As a result of a foreign policy denominated by ‘Going Out Strategy’, launched officially in 2001, China has emerged recently to this reality. More specifically since 2013, after the presentation of its new global connectivity strategy designated by ‘Belt and Road Initiative’, rising not only as an important economic, political and diplomatic player, but also of security, namely in Africa, where its presence is undeniable.