“Sharjah Film Fest 12” celebrates creativity and human experience

This year’s edition promises a strong lineup of 76 films chosen from 1,740 submissions representing 26 countries, including Saudi Arabia, France, Iran, Indonesia, Bahrain, Russia, India, and the Netherlands, as well as São Tomé and Príncipe,...

Petrobras acquires stake in Block 4 in São Tomé and Príncipe

Petrobras has acquired a 27.5% stake in Block 4 in São Tomé and Príncipe, Africa. With this acquisition, Petrobras joins a consortium that includes Shell, the operator with a 30% stake, Galp with 27.5% and ANP-STP holding 15%. Discover B2B...

Interview: China's victory in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression inspired African independence, says Sao Tome and Principe's former president

(Xinhua) 15:39, September 15, 2025 SAO TOME, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression tremendously inspired African nations in their struggles for independence and national liberation, said Manuel...

An island of chocolate gold

Lush with rainforests and cocoa plantations, the island country of Sao Tome and Principe is rich in biodiversity but faces increasing forest and land degradation due to agricultural expansion, changes in land use and the impacts of climate change....

Know Your Counterparty: Enco, Bunker Supplier in São Tomé and Principe

Enco can supply up to 10,000 mt/month of MGO at Neves Terminal in the north-west of São Tomé or at Ana Chaves Port in the north-east. Image Credit: Empresa Nacional de Combustíveis e Óleos Empresa Nacional de Combustíveis e Óleos (Enco) is the...

Power supply fairly stable, we are even exporting — Energy Minister

Ghana’s energy sector is enjoying relative stability, with surplus power now being exported to neighbouring countries, Minister of Energy and Green Transition John Abdulai Jinapor has announced. He said government remains focused on achieving...

Power supply stable, surplus being exported -Energy Minister

Minister of Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, says Ghana's power supply system is now stable, with surplus energy being exported. At a press briefing during the 7th Meeting of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Regional...

New floating facility to ramp up oil production in Venezuela

A new floating facility to produce crude at a project operated by China Concord Resources Corp (CCRC) has arrived in Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, reported Reuters, citing two sources and images. The $1bn (7.14bn yuan) project is set to enhance...

Senator Rasha Kelej Received Maldives First Lady at the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative Summit to Discuss Their Joint Programs to Build Healthcare Capacity

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India & Malé, Maldives – Business Wire India Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit 2025 recently. It was inaugurated...

Russia Is Shrewdly Playing the Long Game in Africa

What if Moscow’s most dangerous moves right now aren’t in Europe, but along the Gulf of Guinea? With its resources sunk deep into Ukraine, the Russian military has weighed carefully whether and when to engage elsewhere, standing aside amid recent...

YES Annual Meeting 2025: How to end the war

At the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, a group of nine journalists from leading media outlets in Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe took part in a press tour to Ukraine from September 9 to 13. This...

Chinese Company Launches $1 Billion Oil Project with PDVSA in Venezuela

China Concord Resources Corp (CCRC) has installed the self-elevating offshore oil platform Alula in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo as part of a $1 billion project aimed at increasing crude production. First Major Energy Infrastructure in Years The...

Special Report – MIF: 30 years, 30 highlights (6-10)

Macau Business magazine l September | Special Report | MIF: 30 years, 30 highlights How to evaluate the results? “During last year’s event [2003], a total of 174 business matches were held, and 14 agreements and contracts were signed, involving a...

Interreg MAC Programme improves Euro-African cooperation

At a recent event in Praia, Cabo Verde took centre stage, highlighting its growing influence as a strategic bridge between the EU, Africa and the Macaronesian archipelagos. 28 projects launched in Cabo Verde Held on 10–11 September 2025, the event...

'I'm going to slit your throat,' screamed the murderer. 'I'm going to kill you': BORIS BECKER reveals the truly terrifying encounter that left him fearing for his life in jail

In the second part of our exclusive serialisation of Boris Becker’s searingly honest account of his time in prison, the tennis star revealed how he befriended a drug kingpin and a Sri Lankan mobster. In today’s final instalment, he describes how...

Angola to invest US$1.3 million in high-yield seeds

The Angolan government plans to spend around 1.2 billion kwanzas (US$1.3 million) importing improved seeds to increase production on key crops, reports Portuguese news agency Lusa. A public tender, published in the state-run Jornal de Angola...

African Small Island Developing States Launch Joint Blue Economy Transformation Project

The project, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with the Global Water Partnership Southern Africa (GWPSA) as Executing Agency, will support Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé...

Accelerating Value in Insurance with AI: From Experimentation to Realized Enterprise Value

Country Select One United States Canada Afghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Azores Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus...

Warriors concede to Malawi

Hilma Nalupe The Brave Warriors will face São Tomé and Principe on tomorrow in the Fifa World Cup qualifiers of Group H, after suffering a 2-1 defeat to Malawi last Friday at the Obed Itani Chilume Stadium in Francistown, Botswana. The Warriors...

Brazil's Lula sees Africa as key part of multipolar vision

“I am aware that we have to have a preferential relationship with Africa,” Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said at a press conference in Addis Ababa last year. “Not only because Africa is part of our history, our culture, our way of...