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Shaping her own identitySara Tavares has turned to music to define her own culture from a mixed Portuguese and Cape Verdean heritage.
(Topix.net)Sara Tavares live
Sara Tavares was born and raised in Lisbon to Cape Verdian parents. The young singer-songwriter juggles languages, global influences and styles to make music that places her as a potential successor to the diva of Cape Verde, Cesaria Evora.
(Topix.net)Some Kibitzing for Brahms From the Cape Verde Islands
For all the wondrous diversity Carnegie Hall has injected into its programming in recent years, the heart of its traditional mission lies in a few series of concerts each season: extended visits by the world's great orchestras.
(Topix.net)Cape Verde educators visit New Bedford as part of sister city program
The New Bedford School Department has launched a sister-city project with the Cape Verdean islands of Sao Filipe and Santa Cruz in a partnership that includes the Wareham and Brockton schools and Bridgewater State College.
(Topix.net)No, no! The bugs are out on the water
For "gumshoe historian" Andrew Buckley and his crew of Hit and Run History, the trip to Cape Verde was supposed to be easy.
(Topix.net)Cape film crew retraces journey around the globe
When Cape Cod native John Kendrick left Boston Sept. 30, 1787, on the first American-based voyage around the world, his crew must have felt some trepidation.
(Topix.net)Cape Verde: Emergency funds released to tackle biggest ever dengue fever outbreak in West Africa
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(Topix.net)Museum seeks home in city building
Shipwreck artifacts that help tell their story remain boxed in storage and photos, ceramics, books and other objects have had to be turned away.
(Topix.net)Cape Verde Tackles 13,000 Suspected Cases of Dengue Fever
In what's being called the biggest dengue fever epidemic ever recorded in West Africa, the Red Cross reports some 13,000 suspected cases in Cape Verde.
(Topix.net)Medics fly in to tackle Cape Verde dengue outbreak
International medical teams have landed in Cape Verde to fight a dengue fever epidemic that has killed six and is suspected to have hit 12,000 in a country of just over 400,000 inhabitants, authorities said on Monday.
(Topix.net)TSA stops Cape Verdeans from taking Tylenol, Vitamin C back to homeland for viral epidemic
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 ...
(Topix.net)Cape Verde: UN Agency Helps Officials in Country Tackle Outbreak of Dengue Fever
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.
(Topix.net)Cape Verde dengue fever outbreak reported
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.
(Topix.net)Police actions at Cape Verdean Association raise questions
Some of my ancestors packed their luggage, while others left wearing only the clothing they owned.
(Topix.net)AFRICA: Turning to traditional medicines in fight against malaria
NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. (irinnews.org)
IN BRIEF: Cape Verde responds to first-ever dengue epidemic
DAKAR Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Dengue fever continues to spread in Cape Verde, with 748 new suspected cases announced by the government on 4 November bringing the total to 6,707. Health officials say at least three people have died in the country’s first-ever epidemic of the mosquito-borne illness. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: AU pushes the envelope on "climate migrants"
JOHANNESBURG Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - An African international agreement has opened the door to a debate on the rights and protection of people displaced by natural disasters, with a nod to migration as a result of climate change. (irinnews.org)
Analysis: African IDP convention fills a void in humanitarian law
KAMPALA Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - The African Union Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons in Africa is a comprehensive document that will, if ratified, fill a void in international humanitarian law, say experts. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Electronic records can streamline health care
NAIROBI Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Replacing manual data with electronic health records would significantly improve the quality of care and enable African HIV treatment programmes to be scaled up more efficiently, say the authors of a new article on the subject. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Digesting a "mouthful" of climate change
MIDRAND Tuesday, October 27, 2009 (IRIN) - Disaster risk reduction as a tool for climate change adaptation is a "technical mouthful" said Rachel Shebesh, chair of the African Parliamentarian Initiative for Climate Risk Reduction. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: IDP convention - now the hard work begins
KAMPALA Monday, October 26, 2009 (IRIN) - Seventeen countries signed the African Union convention on internally displaced persons (IDPs) after years of preparation culminated in a week of meetings in the Ugandan capital but a lot more hard work remains before it becomes effective, according to observers. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Climate change could worsen displacement - UN
KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Talking about forced displacement
KAMPALA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - Civil society and government officials are gathered in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to discuss the Convention on the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Africa and a declaration on refugees, returnees and IDPs. (irinnews.org)
WEST AFRICA: Humanitarian stockpile takes shape - on paper
BAMAKO Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (IRIN) - When a storm hits in Togo, disaster relief items must be flown in from Brindisi, Italy, but that is just too far, according to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is formalizing the region’s first government-operated humanitarian stockpile in Mali’s capital Bamako. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Shining the spotlight on the displaced
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Forty years after the rights of Africa’s refugees were enshrined in a landmark convention, the continent’s leaders are due to make legal history again by adopting a new instrument to assist people displaced within the borders of their own country. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Africa's IDP situation at a glance
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa hosts at least 11 million of the world's 25 million conflict-affected IDPs. Millions more are displaced annually by natural disasters. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Africa's IDPs in numbers
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Most IDPs in Africa have been forced out of their homes by conflict, either between government forces and armed opponents or between communities. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: The objectives of the IDP Convention
NAIROBI Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - The objectives of the Convention (irinnews.org)
WEST AFRICA: Stopping cholera emergencies
DAKAR Thursday, October 15, 2009 (IRIN) - Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water. But beating the deadly – but easily preventable – illness requires that such hygiene practices become routine, health experts say. (irinnews.org)
In Brief: When health facilities become casualties
DAKAR Wednesday, October 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Designed to be safe havens in times of disaster, health facilities are vulnerable to upheaval when catastrophe strikes, according to the UN, which is focusing on hospital safety for International Day for Disaster Reduction. (irinnews.org)
AFRICA: Fighting the "double whammy" of obesity and hunger
BANGKOK Thursday, October 08, 2009 (IRIN) - Africa faces a double burden of obesity and hunger as millions take up increasingly sedentary lives in cities and the global financial crisis hits rural populations’ food security, nutritionists warn. (irinnews.org)