BrasilNews. Brazil's foreign-aid programme: Speak softly and carry a blank cheque. Brazil in Africa: A new Atlantic alliance. IN THE sweaty heat of northern Mozambique, Vale, a Brazilian mining giant, is digging up coal at its mine near the village of Moatize.
A 400,000-tonne mound sits ready to burn. The mine can churn out 4,000 tonnes an hour but the railways and ports cannot cope. Vale is working to improve a line through Malawi to take the coal for export. OAS Construtora, another Brazilian firm, has signed a deal with the miner to build part of a new port at Nacala, 1,000km (620 miles) to the north-east, to do the same. The continent is an important part of Vale’s future, enthuses Ricardo Saad, the firm’s Africa boss. Das Brasilianische Entwicklungsmodell. IBGE.