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20 August 2019

Angola to sell stakes in JV with China International Fund
The biggest privatisation programme Angola has ever seen – and likely one of the largest in Africa – will begin this year, involving some of the country’s most important companies.

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13 August 2019

Challenges Before Mozambican Gas Flows to Asia
After many delays, 2019 has become the year when, finally, both liquified natural gas (LNG) projects in Cabo Delgado, in northern Mozambique, are underway.

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08 August 2019

Deforestation and illegal Chinese logging in Angola
In May, research by NGO Greenpeace stated that Chinese companies are the main culprits in illegal logging in the Congo Basin, including Angola. China is the main market for African timber, whether cut illegally or legally.

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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.

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27 July 2019

São Tomé airport revamp starts to take shape
Technical studies for the airport modernisation project are near conclusion with construction expected to begin in late 2019 or early 2020 and last four years.

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19 July 2019

The families of health and wealth in Cabo Verde
Health is at the heart of the Santos family, one of Cabo Verde’s most influential, whose most prominent member is Jorge Santos, the president of parliament and a key figure inside the liberal Movement for Democracy (MpD) party.

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10 July 2019

US$ 1 billion Belt & Road Africa Fund launched
Launched on the sidelines of the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian, China, the fund will be chaired by doctor and businessman Dr Iqbal Survé, president of the South African Sekunjalo Group which focuses on investments in the African continent.

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08 July 2019

Macau offers the Greater Bay Area its privileged relationship with Portuguese-speaking countries
The diversification of Macau’s economy centred on relations with Portuguese-speaking countries is essential if the territory is to find its place in the Greater Bay Area, said the chief executive of Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU).

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08 July 2019

Ex-Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) chief remanded in custody for graft: CCAC
The ex-president of the government’s Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), Cheong Chou Weng, also known as Jackson Chang, has been remanded in custody, awaiting trial for a range of corruption-related crimes.

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05 July 2019

Clouds over Angola’s IMF programme
With the Angolan president making public claims about the need to restructure Chinese loans, the most sizeable in the country’s foreign debt ‘mix’, the International Monetary Fund has come in with a US$3.7 billion credit, under an Extended Fund Facility programme.
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