Italian oil company ENI expects to begin exporting natural gas from its Rovuma Bay field off Mozambique on schedule in the second half of 2022, Lusa reports.

China has given the Mozambican Interior Ministry US$2.5 million worth of supplies for the African country’s police forces, O País reports.

China will exempt 14 exporters of Brazilian chicken, including major producers BRF and JBS Group, from anti-dumping tariffs – provided they sell chicken in China at an undisclosed minimum price, Reuters reports.

Preliminary official data indicate that the annual rate of growth in Portuguese gross domestic product slowed to 2.1 percent last year from 2.8 percent the year before but still faster than 2016’s 1.2 percent hike, Xinhua reports.

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) forecasts that Angolan gross domestic product will expand by 1.9 percent this year, having contracted by an estimated 0.7 percent last year, Macauhub reports.

Chinese maker of electric vehicles BYD Co. Ltd has been awarded a contract to build a 20 km monorail along a viaduct that will carry it above the sea in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, Xinhua reports.

Luz Saúde, a Portuguese healthcare subsidiary of Fosun International Ltd of China, will set up a call centre in the city of Vila Real in northern Portugal to serve patients all over the country, Lusa reports.

The Monetary Authority of Macao has announced that the Macau Association of Banks, the Financial Society of Guangdong and the Banking Association of Guangdong have struck agreements meant to harness the Guangdong financial system to efforts to turn Macao into a renminbi clearing centre for trade between China and the Portuguese-speaking world.

The Chinese Embassy in Luanda has announced that two Chinese-financed schools for refugees in the northern Angolan province of Lunda Norte have opened.

Brazilian farmers are increasing the amount of land planted with cotton so they can sell more of their crop to China, where the Sino-US trade war has made importing US cotton more expensive because of an import tariff of 25 percent, DTN reports.

Official figures indicate that the value of Brazilian retail sales was 2.3 percent greater last year than the year before, rising for the second year in a row to its highest for five years, Xinhua reports – without saying what the value was.

Outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Angola Cui Aimin has said his government is interested in prompting further Chinese investment in Angolan farming and manufacturing, with a view to developing the country socially and economically, Angop reports.