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Cabo Verde
11 March 2020

Business opportunities in Cabo Verde
With its economy expected to grow above 5% this year, Cabo Verde is generating multiple business opportunities. CLBrief presents three of the most recent, in construction and agriculture.
Angola
03 March 2020

China’s successful experience in agriculture in Mozambique demonstrates importance of partnerships and “patience”
Public-private partnerships and “patience” essential ingredients for projects involving partners from China in Mozambique.
Angola
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.
Angola
19 March 2019

Luanda looks to agricultural self-sufficiency
Angola’s President João Lourenço has put reinvigorating the agriculture sector at the heart of his economic strategy. Greater production of a wider range of crops would both reduce the US$3 billion a year that the country spends on food imports and also improve living standards in the rural areas that have missed out on more rapid economic development at the coast.
Mozambique
16 July 2018

Mozambique tackles illegal logging
93% of all of the timber taken in 2013 was illegally felled. Estimates vary, but it is clear that about half of the illicit timber ends up in China, with most of the rest shipped to Southeast Asia. China also accounted for 90% of Mozambique’s licit timber exports last year.
Angola
18 April 2018

Angola seeks support from China to re-launch cotton production
Japan and China are the countries that Angola is contacting to finance the re-launch of the cotton crops in the Cassange region.
Angola
21 March 2018

Can Angolan agriculture learn from the Mozambican experience?
Angola has discussed reinvigorating its agriculture sector ever since 2002. Yet the reliance on oil income meant that far too little progress was actually made.
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