' Developing country delegates in Baku had been expecting a stronger statement from the G20 meeting in Brazil whose president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been a global leader on climate...
Vol 65 No 23 |
- CLIMATE CHANGE
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva missed the parallel biodiversity summit in Cali Colombia on health grounds...
Vol 64 No 13 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will attend as will China's Premier Li Qiang and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
Also attending will be Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
They were involved in an earlier rail-related publicity stunt: the announcement in February 2011 of the rehabilitation of a 660 kilometre line between Conakry and Kan Kan in the presence of the then Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and his friend President Condé who called the whole thing off two months later for reasons that were never fully explained...
He was head of Vale between 2001 and 2011 and is a close friend of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
On paper President José Eduardo dos Santos's government presiding over deepening social schisms and grand corruption should be far more vulnerable to popular protest than Dilma Rousseff's government which inherited an array of social welfare programmes from its populist predecessor under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
Vol 53 No 19 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Vavi said that Brazil’s trades unionist-turned-President Luis Lula da Silva had faced deep divisions in his workers’ party four years after taking office but during his second (and final) term in 2006-2011 he engineered a dramatic improvement in living standards...
This week former President John Kufuor was announced joint-winner of the World Food Prize (launched by green revolution pioneer Norman Borlaug) along with Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
Vol 52 No 2 |
- BRAZIL
- AFRICA
President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva who worked closely with successive South African Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma on diplomatic issues also presided over a sharp boost in Brazil’s trade with and investment in Africa...
Vol 51 No 2 |
- ECONOMY
- AFRICA
When he first visited the European Union in 2007 four years after coming to office Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had already travelled six times to Africa covering 16 countries...