Anib, the sector association, is launching a programme to promote the quality of Brazilian biscuits abroad, and also to help companies prepare for the foreign market. Gulfood, in Dubai, should receive the campaign.

General Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz should head the operation of the 20,000 soldiers from 20 countries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the largest UN peace mission.

Sales to the Middle East and North Africa in the first quarter of the year dropped 9% in volume, totalling 54,820 tonnes. An embargo in Gulf countries affected the product trade.

In ‘Viagem à Palestina – Prisão a céu aberto’, journalist Adriana Mabilia shows the struggle of Palestinian women in peaceful resistance to occupation and how the Israeli presence affects their life.