Brazilian oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) sold 1.11 million tonnes of fuel oil last month, 231 percent more than a year earlier and the most in any month yet, BNAmericas reports, quoting Petrobras Chief Executive Roberto Castello Branco.

Representatives of the Mozambican and Chinese authorities have begun talks on financing the resumption of work on the Moamba Major Dam in southern Mozambique, Jornal Notícias reports, quoting Mozambican Public Works, Housing and Water Resources Minister João Machatine.

The Portuguese municipality of Cascais, near the country’s capital, Lisbon, has imported manufacturing units from China for making masks meant to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus among its people, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

The Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) Centre for Portuguese Studies will hold a course online between June 30 and July 15 to train teachers of Portuguese as a foreign language, MPI says.

The amount of soybeans China imports rose to 9.38 million tonnes last month, 27.4 percent more than a year earlier, Reuters reports, citing figures given by the Chinese General Administration of Customs on Sunday.

The opening last October of a fishing port built with Chinese money in the central Mozambican city of Beira has improved business there for fishing enterprises big and small, and benefited the community at large, Jornal Notícias reports, citing the Secretary of State of the surrounding province of Sofala, Stella Zeca.

The last three of an order for 10 train sets for intercity passenger services in Angola, all built by Chinese state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corp. Ltd, will be delivered in a few weeks, Expansão reports, citing National Institute for Railways of Angola Director-General Ottoniel Manuel.

China was the biggest single source of money borrowed by Mozambique at the end of 2018, accounting for about US$2.1 billion or 39 percent of Mozambican public-sector external debt, O País reports.

The Cabo Verdean legislature has passed a bill to set up a maritime special economic zone on and around the island of São Vicente, which China will back, A Nação reports.

Chinese maker of electrical appliances and electronics TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd has announced that it will spend up to 325 million reals (US$64.2 million) on doubling to 80 percent its stake in its joint venture in Brazil, SEMP TCL.

Representatives of Angola are in touch with the authorities and financial institutions in China with a view to obtaining debt relief for their country, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, has said.

Vale SA executive Luiz Meriz expects shipments to China of iron ore mined by the Brazilian company to increase this year, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) says.