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1956 |
Aristides Pereira (1924-2011) co-founded of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, or PAIGC, which operated in secret in Guinea-Bissau and in Cape Verde. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Cape Verde 
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1975 May 25 |
ECOWAS Treaty1 was signed. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was formed in Nigeria with 15 members that included: Benin, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso). Links: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Guinea, ECOWAS, Cape Verde
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1975 Jul 5 |
The Cape Verde Islands officially became independent after 500 years of Portuguese rule. Aristides Pereira, a former guerrilla fighter against the Portuguese colonial administration, became head of state following independence. Pedro Verona Pires was appointed as the first prime minister and remained in the post for 16 years, then lost his country's first democratic elections in 1991. Links: Portugal, Cape Verde
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1996 Jul 17 |
The Community of Portuguese-Speaking countries was formed. It included Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. Leaders then held their first summit meeting. Links: Angola, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique, Sao Tome, Cape Verde
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2001 Mar 22 |
Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires began ruling as the President of Cape Verde and continued to September 2011. He was Prime Minister from 1975 to 1991. Links: Cape Verde
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2006 Dec 21 |
Cape Verde PM Jose Maria das Neves said Africa must stop blaming its colonial past for its problems and instead point the finger at the continent's leaders. Links: Cape Verde
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2007 Feb 8 |
In Cape Verde 3 Italian women, aged 17-33, were brutally attacked while vacationing, dragged into the woods, pelted with stones and left for dead at the bottom of a hole. One woman survived. 3 local men were arrested. Links: Italy, Murder, Cape Verde
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2009 Aug 14 |
Hillary Clinton ended her whirlwind seven-nation African trip at Cape Verde, with a tough love message that Africans must tackle their own problems. Links: USA, Cape Verde
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2009 Sep 27 |
In Venezuela Pres. Hugo Chavez proposed that South American and African nations unite to create a cross-continental mining corporation to keep control of their resources. Chavez made diplomatic inroads in Africa at a summit of South American and African leaders where he offered Venezuela's help in oil projects, mining and financial assistance. Venezuela signed agreements to work together on oil projects with South Africa, Mauritania, Niger, Sudan and Cape Verde. Links: Niger, Venezuela, South Africa, Sudan, Mauritania, Cape Verde
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2010 Dec 28 |
West African leaders Boni Yayi of Benin, Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma and Pedro Pires of Cape Verde met with incumbent Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo to deliver an ultimatum from the ECOWAS regional bloc to step down or face removal by force. But Gbagbo's government signaled he was unlikely to agree to cede power to Alassane Ouattara. Links: Benin, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Cape Verde
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2011 Aug 7 |
Cape Verde islanders voted for a new president as Pedro Pires wrapped up two terms at the helm of a nation hailed for its stable democracy. His ruling party faced a split vote. A run-off was scheduled for August 21. Links: Cape Verde
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2011 Aug 21 |
In Cape Verde, one of Africa's most stable and prosperous nations, liberal opposition candidate Jorge Carlos Fonseca unseated the party which held the presidency for a decade. Fonseca, a former foreign minister, won 54.90 percent of the vote, besting his socialist rival Manuel Inocencio Sousa, who garnered 45.91 percent of the vote. Links: Cape Verde
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2011 Sep 22 |
Former Cape Verde president Aristides Pereira (87), who fought Portugal's colonial rule, died in Portugal. He was the West African country's first post-independence president. Links: Cape Verde
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2011 Oct 10 |
The $5 million Mo Ibrahim award for good leadership in Africa, withheld the previous two years because of a lack of qualified candidates, was bestowed to Cape Verde's former Pres. Pedro Verona Pires (77) for promoting democracy and development on his archipelago. Links: Africa, Cape Verde
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2011 Dec 17 |
Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora (70), nicknamed the "barefoot diva", died in a hospital in her native country. Her 1992 album, “Miss Perfumado,” earned her 5 gold records. Links: Pop&Rock, Cape Verde
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2013 Mar 23 |
Spanish, Portuguese and British police boarded a ship loaded with nearly two tons of cocaine destined for sale in Europe and arrested nine people. The ship was in the Atlantic Ocean, some 700 miles southwest of Portugal's Cape Verde islands. Links: Portugal, Spain, Britain, Drugs, Cape Verde
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2013 Apr 4 |
Cape Verde Islands Radiotelevisao Caboverdiana reported that Rear Adm. Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto and four other Guinea-Bissau nationals were apprehended by US authorities aboard a yacht in international waters in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The US Treasury Department designated Na Tchuto as a drug kingpin in 2010 for his alleged role in the cocaine trade in Guinea-Bissau. Tchuto pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in jail, returning to Guinea-Bissau in October 2016. Links: Guinea-Bissau, USA, Cape Verde
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2014 Nov 23 |
In Cape Verde the volcano Pico do Fogo erupted forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate from the Cha das Caldeiras region. By mid-December lava flow destroyed two villages and threatened a forest reserve. Links: Volcano, Cape Verde
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2016 Mar 20 |
In Cape Verde Janira Hopffer Almada conceded defeat after the liberal opposition MPD party took more than 53 percent of the vote with nearly all ballots counted, ousting the PAICV after 15 years in power. Links: Cape Verde
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2016 Apr 26 |
In Cape Verde a disgruntled soldier, who had gone missing, was suspected of gunning down eight soldiers and three civilians, including two Spaniards. Suspect Manuel Antonio Silva Ribeiro (22) was arrested after a 24-hour manhunt. Links: Cape Verde
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2016 Oct 2 |
Cape Verde held presidential elections. President Jorge Carlos Fonseca (66) won re-election sweeping almost three quarters of the vote. Links: Cape Verde
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2016 Dec 4 |
The US Pentagon announced the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Shawqi Awad Balzuhair. The low level militant was sent to the West African nation of Cape Verde for resettlement. This lowered the number of prisoners held at the US base in Cuba to 59. Twenty of those remaining have been approved for release. Links: USA, Gitmo, Cape Verde
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2019 Feb 2 |
It was reported that Cape Verde police have detained 11 Russian sailors for the suspected smuggling of more than nine tons of cocaine. Links: Russia, Drugs, Cape Verde
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2019 Feb 25 |
Niger hosted leaders of 17 countries on the rim of the Sahel (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Gambia, Guinea, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan) as talks began on a nearly $400-billion plan to help the fragile region cope with climate change. Links: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Cameroon, Chad, Environment, Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Djibouti, Cape Verde
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2020 Jun 12 |
Authorities in Cape Verde on a US warrant arrested Alex Saab, a prominent businessman accused of corrupt dealings with the government of Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro. Cape Verde has no extradition treaty with the US. In 2021 the UN put Cape Verde on notice for the torture, arbitrary detention and violations inflicted on diplomat Alex Saab. Links: Venezuela, USA, Corruption, Cape Verde
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2020 Jul 14 |
It was reported that the Cape Verde government has approved the extradition to the US of Colombian businessman Alex Saab. He faced money-laundering charges in Miami federal court, although the alleged business partner of Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro can still appeal the decision. Links: USA, Cape Verde
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2020 Jul 31 |
A court in the West African nation of Cape Verde approved the extradition to the United States of Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman wanted on suspicion of money laundering on behalf of Venezuela's socialist government. His legal team planned to appeal. In 2021 it was reported that Saab was carrying a letter from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accrediting him to Iran's supreme leader. Links: Colombia, Venezuela, USA, Iran, Cape Verde
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2021 Feb 24 |
Portugal said it will send 5% of its COVID-19 vaccine shots to a group of Portuguese-speaking African countries and to the tiny nation of East Timor in the second half of the year. Portugal's former African colonies include Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, and Sao Tome and Principe. Links: Angola, Portugal, Mozambique, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, COVID-19
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2021 Mar 15 |
A regional court in West Africa ordered the immediate release of a Venezuelan businessman close to President Nicolás Maduro, finding that his arrest in Cape Verde on US money laundering charges was unlawful. The court also instructed Cape Verde to cease all extradition proceedings against Alex Saab and compensate him $200,000 for damages. Federal prosecutors in Miami indicted Saab in 2019 on money laundering charges connected to an alleged bribery scheme that pocketed more than $350 million from a low-income housing project for the Venezuelan government that was never built. Links: Venezuela, USA, Cape Verde
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2021 Mar 17 |
Cape Verde’s Supreme Court ruled that Alex Saab, a businessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who was arrested last year in the West African country, can be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges. Links: USA, Cape Verde
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2021 Sep 7 |
Cape Verde's highest court ruled that Alex Saab, a Colombian businessman who is wanted by US authorities on charges of laundering money on behalf of Venezuela's government, should be extradited to the United States. Links: USA, Cape Verde
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2021 Oct 16 |
Cape Verde national radio reported the extradition of Colombian businessman Alex Saab to the US. The Venezuelan government in September had named Saab - who was arrested in June 2020 when his plane stopped in Cape Verde to refuel - as a member of its negotiating team in talks with the opposition in Mexico. Links: Venezuela, USA, Cape Verde
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2021 Oct 16 |
Venezuela said it would suspend negotiations with the opposition that were set to resume this weekend, after Cape Verde extradited Colombian businessman Alex Saab, a Venezuelan envoy, to the United States on money laundering charges. Hours after Saab's extradition, Venezuela revoked the house arrest of six former executives of refiner Citgo, a US subsidiary of state oil company PDVSA. Links: Venezuela, USA, Cape Verde
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2021 Oct 17 |
Cape Verde voted for a new president who faces the task of stabilizing its tourism-driven economy after the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Opposition candidate and former prime minister Jose Maria Neves (61) won Cape Verde's presidential election. His main rival, the ruling party's flagbearer Carlos Veiga, conceded defeat. Links: Cape Verde
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2022 Jun 20 |
Cape Verde said it will spend around $85 million on emergency subsidies and fiscal measures this year to mitigate the rise in food and fuel prices brought by the war in Ukraine. Links: Cape Verde
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