Bookings from Chinese tourists to Portugal this month increased more than 50 percent compared to February last year, said João Cotrim de Figueiredo, President at Turismo de Portugal, the country’s tourism authority.

Brazil ended 2014 with an unemployment rate of 6.8 percent, down from 7.1 percent in the previous year, the country’s official statistics agency, the IBGE, reported on Tuesday.

Angola plans to issue US$20 billion in public debt and pay interest of up to 7 percent, Angélica Paquete, director of the Public Debt Management Unit of the Ministry of Finance, said in Luanda.

China’s tourism revenue in 2014 increased 14.7 percent from the previous year to over 3.38 trillion yuan (US$551 billion), state-run news agency Xinhua reported.

The international ratings agency Moody’s on Tuesday predicted that Mozambique’s 2015 gross domestic product (GDP) growth could be cut by between 0.2 percent and 0.5 percent due to the heavy rains and flooding that have hit the centre and north of the country.

East Timor’s President has confirmed former health minister Rui Araujo as the new Prime Minister of the country, the Government said on Tuesday.

China’s economic growth will slow to 7.1 percent this year, as the market demand remains sluggish while the Central Government pushes forward with reforms, said a state-run think tank.

The new national plan on exports, being drawn up by the Government of Brazil, will be published in March, said the Minister of Development, Industry and Trade, Armando Monteiro Neto. It will focus on finding new markets for Brazilian exports and on cutting bureaucratic procedures, he said, quoted by news agency Agência Brazil

Angola’s amended State Budget proposal for 2015 includes cutting public spending by a third and reducing estimates for GDP growth to 6.6 percent, local media report.

Portugal’s total exports grew last year but the expansion rate slowed compared to 2013, data from Statistics Portugal showed on Monday.

China’s foreign trade dropped by 10.8 percent in January after the steepest decline in imports in nearly six years, figures from the Chinese General Administration of Customs show.

China will send a permanent mission to the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, reported China’s state-owned English-language newspaper China Daily.