E-commerce is booming in Brazil this year and China´s Aliexpress is expecting to profit from the trend, by overcoming transport and logistics barriers, its general manager in the South American country says.

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In Africa, Jack Ma and the Alibaba Foundation have taken center stage in supplying medical masks, Covid-19 tests and other protective kit to countries with fragile health systems. Just a few days after the gear arrived in Ethiopia for redistribution in the continent, all lusophone countries were stocked up.