Cape Verde News

Cape Verde's musical innovators just keep on coming. Last year, I introduced you to Mayra Andrade and Tcheka .

When July 4th came around, the center of attention for most people was on celebrating the July 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence.

It was the kind of day, to quote City Councilor Brian Gomes, when everyone in this seacoast community would claim to have some Cape Verdean roots.

For folks of Cape Verdean descent, July 5 is July 4. Sunday was the 34th anniversary of Cape Verde's achieving independence from Portugal, and droves celebrated with a noisy, bustling festival in India Point Park.

What's on tap this holiday weekend? You have your choice of fireworks, Summerfest, the Cape Verdean Recognition Parade and all sorts of other fun.

Independence Day is, of course, Saturday. But Sunday is Cape Verdean Independence Day.

Cheeky attitude: A Cape Verdean struts her national pride on one of many beaches on the island of Santiago - the archipelago's hub.

An international Red Locust emergency campaign in Easter n and Southern Africa has succeeded in containing a massive locust outbreak in T a nzania, the Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday.

In celebrating Cape Verdean Recognition Week, which began Saturday, the Cape Verdean-American Veterans Association is also marking the progress made since last June when the state Department of Revenue seized the Veterans Hall for nonpayment of taxes.

In 1456, the Portuguese discovered the Cape Verde islands, some 375 miles off the Senegalese coast in the Atlantic.

Praia - Authorities in Cape Verde, a popular tourist destination with a large diaspora in Europe and the United States, were on alert on Wednesday after the country detected its first cases of swine flu.

The eyes of Lamine Fellah have fallen upon many a landscape. He was born in Algeria in 1970 and traveled with his father - an ambassador - to Spain, Burkina Faso, Burundi and Chad.

The tropical Atlantic waters around Cape Verde are very low in plant nutrients.A Nitrogen is in especially short supply and limits the growth of the phytoplankton, the tiny plants that are at the basis of the food chain in the ocean.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has completed the sixth review under a three-year Policy Support Instrument for Cape Verde following a mission by Fund staff to Praia in April 2009.

Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evora performs in Lisbon July 2, 2006. Evora was in Portugal to present her album "Rogamar" Cesaria Evora will perform in Sofia, at Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture on October 2 2009.

For those investing in property overseas, Cape Verde has been an exciting emerging market in recent years.

The government of Cape Verde, together with the Millennium Challenge Corporation , held an inauguration ceremony last Saturday, June 6, 2009, to celebrate the completion of the Orgos-Pedra Badejo road, which is the first completed road under MCC's compact with Cape Verde.

Lus Cabral, who has died aged 78 from a heart attack, played a significant though short-lived role in the troubled history of the small, impoverished west African republic of Guinea-Bissau . He was the country's first president on independence in 1974, after a 13-year liberation war in which he played a distinguished part.

The family of a British filmmaker being held in prison off the coast of West Africa today said they were "beside themselves" with worry.

Sarah Hernandez, 9, has a ready answer for why she'd want to learn Portuguese. "At home, I always speak Spanish, so why would I take Spanish," said the Multicultural Magnet School third-grader. Intent on becoming fluent in a third language, Hernandez is in her third year of taking a Portuguese Language Arts class from Maria Conroy, one of school's ...