Brazil & Southern Cone - November 2011 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Former president Lula da Silva (2003-2010) has yet to visit Africa in his capacity as roving goodwill and trade ambassador and is unlikely to be able to go for a while due to his recent throat cancer diagnosis. However, his successor Dilma Rousseff visited South Africa, Mozambique and Angola in mid October, for the first time as president but not for the first time as a Brazilian government representative. Rouseff’s first appointment was the 5^th trilateral IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) summit. She then travelled to meet the President of Mozambique, Armando Guebuza, on October 19 in Maputo, with an agenda focused on energy cooperation. The two leaders commissioned a bilateral working group on biofuels is preparing a common action plan. In April, Brazil agreed a US$80m to Mozambique to transform the Nacala airbase in Mozambique’s Nampula province, into an international airport. Brazil’s construction giant Odebrect is running the project.

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