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Beijing Capital Airlines resumes flights to Portugal on 24 April

7 April 2020
| China | Portugal
China's Beijing Capital Airlines plans to resume flights to Portugal on 24 April, with a weekly Beijing Daxing - Xi’an - Lisbon, using an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, travel and tourism news agency Presstur reported.

China finances remodelling of the Cabo Verde National Auditorium

7 April 2020
| Cabo Verde | China
The redevelopment of the Cabo Verde National Auditorium, in the capital Praia, is being financed by China, and the completion of the first phase is planned for the end of June, said the director-general for Arts and Creative Industries of the Ministry of Culture.

Cabo Verde prepares development strategy for after Covid-19

7 April 2020
| Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Olavo Correia, announced on Wednesday the creation of a group, made up of several domestic and foreign experts to assist the Government in preparing a strategy for the post-pandemic period.

Cabo Verde records economic growth of 5.7% in 2019

7 April 2020
| Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde posted economic growth of 5.7% in 2019, the country's National Statistical Institute (INE) said on Monday in Praia as it released the Quarterly National Accounts for the fourth quarter and the whole of last year.

São Tomé central bank facilitates access to credit

7 April 2020
| São Tomé and Príncipe
The Central Bank of São Tomé and Príncipe has launched a series of measures to mitigate the effects of Covid-19, including a drop in the rate of the marginal lending facility from 11% to 9.5%, the governor of the central bank Américo Barros announced on Monday in São Tomé.

Almost all of Macau’s population accessed the Internet in 2019

7 April 2020
| Macau
More than 92% or 182,300 households in Macau accessed the Internet in 2019, a real increase of 6,900 households, reported the Statistics and Census Bureau, adding that those who had access via broadband reached 138,800 or 76.1% of the total.

Covid-19 puts signs of economic recovery in Mozambique at risk

3 April 2020
| Mozambique
The Covid-19 pandemic is expected to put the signs of economic recovery in Mozambique seen since the beginning of the year at risk, said Eaglestone Securities in its report on Mozambique for April 2020.

Drop in gaming and gambling revenues in Macau due to Covid-19 within expected parameters

3 April 2020
| Macau
The drop in gross revenues from gaming in Macau is within expected levels, taking into account the effects of the current Covid-19 epidemic, said on Thursday the Secretary for the Economy and Finance, Lei Wai Nong, after a plenary meeting of the Permanent Council for Social Dialogue.

EU support to Mozambique dependent upon prior agreement with the IMF

3 April 2020
| Mozambique
The representative of the European Union in Mozambique, António Sanchez-Benedito said necessary conditions to resume direct support for the country's State Budget are still lacking, daily newspaper O País reported.

Mozambique expected to increase fish catch in the 2020 campaign

3 April 2020
| Mozambique
Mozambique is expected to catch more than 461,000 tonnes of fish in the current fishing, which compares with 410,000 tonnes in the previous campaign, and estimates point to the biggest contribution coming from artisanal fishing, the minister of the sea, inland waters and fisheries said in Maputo.

Government of Mozambique expects new oil and gas projects by 2024

3 April 2020
| Mozambique
The second phase of the natural gas project in Pande and Temane and the light oil project in Inhassoro, in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique, will take place in the 2020-2024 five-year period, the Mozambican prime minister said on Thursday in Maputo.

Angola’s TAAG secures State guarantee to buy aeroplanes

3 April 2020
| Angola
The government of Angola has approved a guarantee of US$118 million for flagship carrier TAAG to buy aeroplanes, under a presidential decree dated 1 April, the international press reported.

Portugal requests support from China to acquire equipment and medical products

2 April 2020
| China | Portugal
The government of China is available to help Portugal to acquire equipment and other types of medical products in the country that is needed to help combat the new coronavirus, the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Portuguese counterpart Augusto Santos Silva, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Zhuhai announces restrictions on entry of vehicles from Macau

2 April 2020
| China | Macau
Entry by vehicles from Macau into the neighbouring municipality of Zhuhai will be subject to restrictions from Thursday, as part of a measure to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

Covid-19 reduces new vehicle registrations in February in Macau

2 April 2020
| Macau
The number of new vehicle registrations registered a drop of 39.9% in February in year-on-year terms to 436, due to the fact that the registration service was temporarily closed due to the Covid-19 outbreak, said the region's Statistics and Census Bureau.

Mozambique launches another international tender for the Temane-Maputo transmission line

2 April 2020
| Mozambique
The process of selection of companies that will build the electrical substations included in the Temane-Maputo transmission line project, with an output of 400 Kilovolts, began formally on Wednesday, 1 April, Mozambican newspaper Notícias reported.

AfDB pays to asphalt road in northern Mozambique

2 April 2020
| Mozambique
The African Development Bank (AfdB) plans to donate US$34 million to lay asphalt on the road between Nambungali and Roma in Mozambique, over a distance of 35 kilometres, under a document signed with the government of the country, the financial institution said.

Angola extends public tender to hire diamond valuers for 45 days

2 April 2020
| Angola
The deadline for supplying and acquisition of the tender documents and subsequent steps for the public tender limited by prior qualification for Angola to hire five independent rough diamond valuers has been extended by 45 days, said the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Oil.

Gross revenues of Macau’s casinos falls by almost 80.0% in March 2020

1 April 2020
| Macau
Gross revenues at Macau's casinos fell 79.7% on year in March 2020 to 5.257 billion patacas (US$657 million), a figure that compares with revenues of 25.840 billion patacas (US$3.23 billion) a year before, said the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau.

Mozambique under state of emergency from 1 April

1 April 2020
| Mozambique
Mozambique went into a state of emergency from 00:00 on 1 April for a period for 30 days, as decreed by the President of the Republic, Filipe Nyusi, given the spread and need to control the new coronavirus pandemic, which officially has infected eight people so far in Mozambique.

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