Cushman & Wakefield forecasts that investment in retail real estate in Portugal will at least double this year, Bloomberg reports.

The annual rate of tourist price inflation in Cabo Verde was 2.5 percent in the first quarter of this year, A Semana reports.

Chinese have invested at least US$8.69 billion in Portugal since 2008, Bloomberg reports.

DBRS has raised its credit rating for Portugal by one notch to BBB, its second-lowest investment grade, with a stable outlook.

Chinese Vice-minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Taolin has said China and Mozambique should cooperate more closely in the field of agricultural technology, AIM reports.

China Jinjiang Environment Holding Co. Ltd has announced its intention to buy 51 percent of the stock of the first waste-to-energy project in Brazil for 38.5 million reais (US$11.27 million).

A delegation of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao), led by Deputy Secretary-General Dr. Rodrigo Brum, visited Guangzhou, in Guangdong Province, from April 14 to 15, to participate in the 123rd China Import and Export Fair (Canton Fair).

Representatives of China and Portugal believe each country should show more of the films and television programmes made in the other, Xinhua reports.

Triton Minerals Ltd says it has agreed to sell graphite from its Ancuabe mine in Mozambique to a Chinese distributor, Qingdao Tianshengda Graphite Co. Ltd.

The Angolan parliament has passed unanimously a bill to remove limits on foreign investment in the country, part of an Angolan government effort to reinvigorate the oil-dependent economy, Agence France-Presse reports.

The International Monetary Fund thinks the recovery in the economy of Cabo Verde is gaining momentum and that the government there has achieved what the fund calls “impressive fiscal consolidation” in recent years.

Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation José Pacheco has said Mozambican, Botswanan and Zimbabwean officials will meet soon to discuss resuming development of the deep-water port of Techobanine in the Maputo district of Mozambique, Rádio Moçambique reports.