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• As of 2021, the value of Brazil-Africa trade was $7.4 billion, being 56 percent drop from $17 billion in 2011.
• Brazil’s energy giant Petrobas left Africa in 2020, selling off its subsidiary, Petrobas and Gas BV.
• President Lula: “Brazil would not be what it is today without the participation of millions of Africans”.

The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil) has mapped out potential investment and trade opportunities across Africa, a pointer to a new era of economic relations between the two regions that literally sit on opposite sides of the south Atlantic Ocean.

The move is part of the organ’s broader efforts to promote Brazilian products and services abroad and attract foreign investments to strategic sectors.

Historically, it is only fair that Brazil increases its economic and bilateral relations with Africa, a continent where over half of her population trace their origin.

After a recent major drop in …

• The government of Mozambique has ordered retailers of food products to label in Portuguese all their products sold in the country before the end of July 2022
• Portuguese is the official language of six African countries, including Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe and Guinea Bissau
• Rita Freis said that this is the last year that the government will grant a tolerance for traders to label food products in Portuguese

The government of Mozambique has ordered retailers of food products to label in Portuguese all their products sold in the country before the end of July 2022.

Rita Freitas, the national inspector at the National Inspection of Economic Activities (INAE), announced this during a training seminar on the legal system of package labelling of food products.

Portuguese is the official language of six African countries, including Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe …