Brazil’s state-owned oil company got clearance from National Electric Energy Agency to set up a plant in Rio Grande do Norte. The experimental project should start generating power in 2014.
Author: From the Newsroom
Measures for support to foreign trade are part of the package presented by the government of Brazil on Tuesday. Among them is a new type of financing to benefit sales through trading companies.
Projects implemented in Brazil received 28.2 billion reals (US$ 15.4 billion) worth of financing last year. Transport and logistics was the industry with the highest volume of funds.
The institution has filed an international patent request in Canada and the United States for a technology to identify young bovines of the Nelore race whose meat will be soft.
Event is due April 17 and 18 in London. The goal is to attract investors into the oil refining industry. At present, the country needs to import oil derivatives.
International Monetary Fund report lauds the African country’s macroeconomic policy management, but claims that maintaining budget discipline will be a challenge.
The UN organisation for refugees trained employees who should evaluate asylum requests in the country. Brazil has 4,500 people in this condition.
Paper exports dropped 6.2% in the first two months of the year, but participation of Africa as a destination rose from 5% to 7%. Brazilian production remained stable.
Company director claims approximately 80,000 will need to be purchased per day to meet domestic demand. Another 150,000 barrels of diesel should be imported daily.
Mohamed Sanad created an internal mobile phone aerial to reduce the device’s radiation. He won the Innovation Prize for Africa in 2012. The Algerian Zeinou Abdelyamine came in second place.
Event will be held in the centre of the city next Friday (30th) to call for the end of attacks on occupied territories.
The Brazilian aircraft manufacturing company signed contracts worth US$ 180 million with Mauritania, Burkina Faso and Angola. The units sold were A-29 Super Tucano models.
The crisis in Europe should impact drastically on official development assistance to Africa, says the UN. France and Italy have already reduced their donations, which are crucial to some countries.
The surplus results from Brazilian exports of US$ 16.277 billion and imports of US$ 15.177 billion.
