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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau negotiating new joint resource exploitation contract with Senegal

7 August 2018
Guinea-Bissau is negotiating with Senegal a new agreement on joint exploitation of petroleum resources and presented a set of proposals in the third round of talks held during the first three days of August in Dakar, the head of Bissau’s delegation said on Monday.

Guinea-Bissau civil servants to have new salary scale starting in September

2 August 2018
The government of Guinea-Bissau will apply a new salary scale to civil servants from September, the Minister of Labour and Public Administration Fernando Gomes announced on Wednesday in Bissau.

China’s cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries important in Chinese foreign relations

31 July 2018
Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries is an integral and important part of China's foreign relations, said the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Macau on a visit to Forum Macau.

Angola hosts 13th Summit of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries

19 July 2018
Angola hosts the 13th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP), to be held in 2020, following a decision made at this year's meeting on the island of Sal, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), which elected Portuguese ambassador Francisco Ribeiro Teles as the institution's new executive secretary, according to the local press.

Portuguese-speaking African countries and Timor-Leste receive 26 million euros from the European Union

19 July 2018
The Portuguese-speaking African countries and Timor-Leste (PALOP-TL) will have access to 26 million euros provided by the European Union (EU) to support two projects to promote employment in the cultural sector and reforms in the management of public finances, which was signed on Wednesday on the island of Sal in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), the EU delegation in the archipelago said.

World Bank evaluates projects funded in Guinea-Bissau

19 July 2018
The World Bank has begun a process of evaluating projects financed in Guinea-Bissau, budgeted at approximately US$260 million, mainly in the health, education, energy and telecommunications sectors, with the first working meeting taking place in Bissau, the international press reported.

Entrepreneurs want CPLP to focus more attention on the economy

18 July 2018
Entrepreneurs want the subject of the economy to become a greater focus within the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) and allow them to take up room as economic leaders, the president of the CPLP Business Confederation (CE-CPLP) Jorge Carlos Fonseca, said during a hearing granted by the President of Cabo Verde.

6th Macau Ministerial Forum meeting postponed to 2020

16 July 2018
The sixth ministerial meeting of Forum Macau, which had been scheduled for 2019, will be delayed until 2020, according to diplomatic sources linked to the institution.

Food products from Portuguese-speaking countries showcased in Dongguan, China

13 July 2018
The Macau-Dongguan Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum and the Promotional Activity of Products from the Portuguese-speaking Countries - Dongguan were recently held in that city on the Pearl River Delta organised by the Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Dongguan Trade Department, according to official information.

Guinea-Bissau requests help from Vietnam to sell cashews

13 July 2018
The government of Guinea-Bissau plans to send a delegation to Vietnam to discuss with the country's central bank ways to make funds available to fund Vietnamese companies to buy part of Guinea-Bissau's unsold cashew production, the Guinean Minister of Commerce and Handicrafts said on Thursday in Bissau.

President of Guinea-Bissau attends China-Africa Forum in September

13 July 2018
The President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau will take part in the next China-Africa Forum, to be held next September in Beijing, the Chinese ambassador to Guinea-Bissau announced, following a meeting with President José Mário Vaz.

Angola’s National Bank cancels authorisation granted to Ecobank Transnational

9 July 2018
The authorisation granted to Pan-African financial group Ecobank Transnational Inc. to set up Ecobank Angola has been cancelled following its expiration, "due to the repeated non-compliance with the legal deadline for the start of activity," the National Bank of Angol said last week.

Guinea-Bissau loses half of its rice yield every year due to lack of agricultural equipment

9 July 2018
Guinea-Bissau loses more than 40% of rice production annually due to poor seed quality and a lack of appropriate equipment to harvest and collect it, the president of the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INPA), Simão Gomes said last Saturday.

Guinea-Bissau International Airport undergoes expansion

6 July 2018
Osvaldo Vieira International Airport, in Bissau, as of Friday has seven new facilities built from scratch, as part of a project to expand and modernise it, the representative in Guinea-Bissau of the Agency for the Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA), Bamba Cote told Macauhub.

Guinea-Bissau creates Agency for Promotion of Exports and Entrepreneurial Development

4 July 2018
The government of Guinea-Bissau plans to provide the country with an Agency for Promotion of Exports and Entrepreneurial Development, according to an order from the Ministry of Commerce and Handicraft, to which Macauhub had access on Tuesday.

Cabo Verde’s Emprofrac carried out its first exports

4 July 2018
Cabo Verde's (Cape Verde's) national pharmaceutical products company, Emprofac has made its first sales abroad since it was established in 1979 with the recent shipment of goods to Sao Tome and Principe and two to Guinea-Bissau, said the president of the public company.

Products from Macau and Portuguese-speaking countries available on NetEase Kaola

4 July 2018
Products from Macau and Portuguese-speaking countries are now available on NetEase Kaola, a cross-border e-commerce platform from China, at the "Macau Pavilion," an effective new channel to explore China's domestic market, according to the Macau Economic Services Bureau.

University of Coimbra launches course on relationship between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries

3 July 2018
China and the Portuguese-speaking Countries in the World Economy: Trade, Tourism, Cooperation and Development is the official name of an advanced training course coordinated by Carmen Amado Mendes to be taught over two semesters between the end of September and December and between February and May, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, according to official information.

Guinea-Bissau expects to export 150,000 ton of cashew nuts this season

3 July 2018
Guinea-Bissau has already exported some 50,000 tons of cashew nuts and expects to reach 150,000 tons by the end of the current sales campaign of this strategic product for the country's economy, the Minister of Commerce and Crafts, Vicente Fernandes said on Sunday.

Brazil may increasingly use Macau as a platform to operate in China

27 June 2018
Macau's Economy and Finance Secretary Leong Vai Tac said at a meeting in Brasilia that measures to reduce limits on access to to the Fund for Development Cooperation between China and the Portuguese-Speaking Countries to make it easier for more countries to benefit from its use.
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