Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mbeki enthuses about his Brazilian counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's welfarist policies (except perhaps Brasilia's rapid and broad-based distribution of anti-retroviral drugs) and equally about the tempo of state investment in China and India...