Cape Verde News

FORCV.com, which covers the Cape Verdean community in Boston, reports TSA agents today blocked Cape Verdeans from boarding a plane to their homeland with large quantities of a variety of medical items to help victims of a dengue-fever epidemic there: ... TSA officials, unaware of the breakout of dengue Epidemic in Cape Verde this week, delayed the ...

Officials from the United Nations World Health Organization are at work in the Atlantic Ocean archipelago of Cape Verde to help local authorities battle the country's first reported epidemic of dengue fever.

Multiple news and international health organizations are reporting that the island nation of Cape Verde off the west coast of Africa is experiencing its first outbreak of dengue fever.

Some of my ancestors packed their luggage, while others left wearing only the clothing they owned.

Thanks to the work of the Capuchin friars and the Missionary Association AMSES , the new Saint Francis Hospital Center has become a reality, at the service of the people of Fogo and Brava .

Sara Tavares, who grew up in Portugal and is of Cape Verdean descent, performs Nov.

According to the National Police, the victim who is approximately 40 years old was dead when arrived at the emergency services at the Agostinho Neto Hospital around 06:37 AM .

SOURCE: rock paper scissors, inc. Lifting Up a Shot of Pure Grain Cesaria: The Music of Cape Verde's Billie Holiday Goes to Cairo Cesaria Evora has overcome poverty, a revolution, and even a recent stroke to become a national treasure of Cape Verde and uphold her reputation as an increasingly adventurous icon of world music.

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Lowell's political scene shows increasing polarization, which can have negative consequences in upcoming elections.

PROVIDENCE The Providence Journal says it's "saddened" some readers have been offended by an editorial cartoon depicting a mixed-race Rhode Island lawmaker as a shoeshine boy.

Legendary Cape Verdean singer Cesria vora returns to NDK's Hall 1 in Sofia this evening for a performance at 8pm.

It's welcome home to the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Legare. She's back in Portsmouth after nearly four months off Western Africa, where the crew helped stop piracy, drugs and illegal fishing.

An International Monetary Fund mission, led by Mr. Nils Oeyvind Maehle, visited Cape Verde during September 23-October 1, 2009.

The Coast Guard announced Tuesday that the Cutter Legare will return to the Coast Guard Integrated Support Command in Portsmouth Thursday following a three-month deployment.

The first African Director of the Centre of Studies in Information Sciences and Techniques of the Dakar-based Cheikh Anta Diop University - The XVth International Drama Festival opened in Minde lo, in the Cape Verdian Island of Sao Vicente, on Thursday with 21 groups from 10 European, South American and African countries participating.

Bobby Constantino makes the case why we saw Obama rallies in Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan in 2008 but haven't seen anything similar for mayoral candidates this year: ... In Boston, young men go into the financial district at 9am on workdays and see nearly all white faces.

Togolese artist Paul Ahyi on Thursday became the newest me mber on the list of UNESCO renowned personalities who use their influence, chari s ma and prestige to help promote the message and programmes of the organisation.

Feverish speculations: A Russian soldier escorts one of the eight suspected hijackers of cargo ship Arctic Sea at the Cape Verdean island of Sal on August 19.

The 115-year-old schooner Ernestina at her berth at the State Pier in New Bedford.