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<span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.9997px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.9997px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As we consolidate our turnaround mission, we are delighted to announce the conclusion of an Agreement with African Fossils Limited of Tanzania to move 18 million litres (18,000 metric tones) of petroleum products to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the next one year.</strong></span><span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.9997px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.9997px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first consignment of about one million litres (1,000 metric tones) has already departed the Port of Dar es Salaam and we are confident that the initial two million litres (2,000 metric tones) will be successfully delivered to the DRC within the next one month.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This import order is particularly key because it fulfills our desire to balance the flow of traffic in both directions of our line as most of the traffic we are currently moving comprises exports from Zambia and DRC.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The fuel order is the second import consignment to be secured within a month, following the transportation order for 48 million litres (48,000 metric tones) of petroleum destined for Malawi.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our target for this financial year ending <span data-term="goog_819122884" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">30 June 2017</span> is 381,000 metric tones, a three-fold improvement from 130,000 metric tones that we have recently hauled in the just ended 2015/2016 Financial Year.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We are grateful to African Fossils Limited for giving us a vote of confidence through this order, which also reaffirms the faith that our customers have generally placed in us to transform the Authority.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We believe we are well on course to turnaround TAZARA’s performance, which had dropped to the lowest in the Financial Year 2014/2015, when a paltry 87,680 metric tones was transported.</strong></span></div>

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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They put up signs advertising their prices, including one that said: Butter – 10 francs.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In response, the lady added a sign to her own window: Butter – 9 francs.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The next day, the big supermarket had a new sign: Butter – 8 francs.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sure enough, the day after the lady’s sign now read: 7 francs.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This went on for a while, until eventually one of the lady’s customers pointed to the sign and said, “Madame, you cannot keep your prices so low for long. These big companies can use their buying power to sell products cheaper, but a little store like yours can never compete.”</strong></span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In response, the old lady bent forward conspiratorially and muttered, “Monsieur, I don’t even sell butter.”</strong></span></div>

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If Rousseff goes will 47 million Brazilians lose their benefits?

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In fact, Ms Rousseff claims that some of the alleged fiscal crimes she is accused of in her impeachment process were procedures intended to protect social programmes from drastic spending cuts.</div>
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Earlier this month she told crowds that Vice-President Michel Temer would remove 36 million people from the programme and "throw them into the free market, forcing the poor to fend for themselves".</div>
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One of her last moves was to raise the Bolsa Familia benefit by 9%, and to change the financial definition of poverty, to bring more people into the scheme.</div>
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Ms Rousseff's speech struck a chord with women in Itamatatiua and across Brazil. They fear that under Mr Temer's rule their benefits might be cut.</div>
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The pottery cooperative makes on average $225 (£155) a month, which is split between its 12 members.</div>
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Success and failure</h2>
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But most women here do not make the bulk of their income from the cooperative.</div>
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Keeping children in school is more lucrative than running a business or even getting a job, when they can find one.</div>
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Itamatatiua is one of the 207 small communities in Alcantara, a very poor city in Maranhao state, that highlights the successes and failures of Bolsa Familia.</div>
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The city has a <a class="story-body__link-external" href="http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(17, 103, 168, 0.298039); border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Development Index </a>(HDI) of 0.573, which means there is a low standard of living, but even so it has improved its score by 40% over the course of the decade.</div>
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The small communities now have roads connecting them to the city centre.</div>
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Another social programme implemented by the Workers' Party (Minha Casa, Minha Vida) built brick-and-mortar houses where mud and straw ones used to stand.</div>
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But despite all improvements, the local economy has come to depend heavily on money that comes from the federal budget.</div>
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In a city of 21,000 residents, a staggering 78% of them receive money from Bolsa Familia. On payment week, there are long cues outside the payment centre from the early hours until closing time.</div>
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Job search</h2>
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Some of the women I met wanted better standards of living but could not find jobs.</div>
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Many simply gave up on the idea of working, and found themselves better off by having children and living on welfare.</div>
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Alcantara's mayor Domingos Araken, from Ms Rousseff's Workers' Party, acknowledges that even after 13 years of Bolsa Familia, the town has so far failed to build a self-sustaining economy.</div>
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"Over the years we didn't get our economy going on its own feet - but the social programmes allowed us to spend a lot more on infrastructure, such as roads and houses, and invest in education.</div>
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"Hopefully all that will pay off now and we won't depend so much on Bolsa Familia in the future."</div>
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He believes that spending cuts to the programme will force thousands to migrate to bigger urban centres, in search of work.</div>
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Budget deficits</h2>
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The future of Bolsa Familia is a challenge for Brazilian society and its new president.</div>
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The Workers' Party says it has helped lift 36 million people out of poverty and has drastically reduced inequality.</div>
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The programme has earned plaudits from the World Bank and has been copied in many other places.</div>
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Yet Brazil is running high budget deficits and its public debt is in an unsustainable course.</div>
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With a deepening recession, tax increases no longer seem viable and the government is cutting spending where it can.</div>
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Future concerns</h2>
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Mr Temer and people around him have signalled that Bolsa Familia still ranks high in his list of priorities, but has said that no social programmes are immune to cuts.</div>
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After a decade of benefiting from Brazil's economic emergence, families in many poor communities across the country like Itamatatiua now fear their fates may be about to change.</div>
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Back in her pottery cooperative, Ana Rita de Jesus does not believe her wage will be enough for her to make it on her own.</div>
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"I need the money from the government. It is not every day that we get to sell our pottery pieces. But I know that I can count on Bolsa Familia every month."</div>

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