Cape Verde Islands : News

News : Cape Verde Islands : News

While the Mozambican economy has shown "impressive growth" in recent years, it remains driven mainly by aid inflows, and mega-projects that provide little in the way of direct employment or tax revenue. (AllAfrica)

Cape Verdean singer, Maria de Barros, will perform Saturday for the first time in Angola, at the invitation of Radio Vial, a source with the contracting team confirmed. (AllAfrica)

Por VNN Staff / Publicado Friday, May 09, 2008 The only boat that linked the Cape Verdean islands of Maio, Fogo and Brave, capsized Tuesday next to Santiago but the 108 passengers o n board had been rescued by ... via Visao News

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Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation. (AllAfrica)

"There are so many of us across the country, and I'm hope to bring us closer via the Internet, particularly in times like this when we need to put our heads together for the next generation."

Word that the 36th Cape Verdean Recognition Parade could be canceled due to financial difficulties traveled at the speed of the Internet all over the country this week. via SouthCoastToday.com

"Ten-breasted alien"-story tabloids. The word "supposed"

One year ago, Madeleine McCann was with her parents on holiday in Praia da Luz, Algarve, Portugal, perhaps one of the calmest and safest places in Europe, if not the planet. via Pravda

Sixteen of the 17 members of the Cape Verdean music band dubbed "Livity" arrived this Thursday afternoon, in Luanda, to participate in the second show to celebrate the International Peace Festival, held by Casa Blanca show promoting company. (AllAfrica)

I am responding to a query posted on April 21, 2003 about Frank Rose from Cape Verde. via Cousinconnect.com

"If this parade is canceled, this will be a black eye to the city of New Bedford. This has always been a city parade."

The city's Cape Verdean parade could be canceled for the first time in its 36-year history this summer due to financial difficulties. via SouthCoastToday

NAIROBI Thursday, November 22, 2007 (IRIN) - Co-published by IRIN and UN-HABITAT, Tomorrow's Crises Today explores the effect living in today's cities has on the millions of people who already live in metropolises, and those who are being drawn into them from the countryside every day - by the millions. (irinnews.org)

BRAZZAVILLE Wednesday, November 21, 2007 (IRIN) - Human rights activists who gathered in Brazzaville have called on African states to do more to prevent the enforced disappearance of citizens and to end the impunity that often accompanies such crimes. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 21, 2007 (IRIN) - In the not-too-distant future, several African countries will face the depressing reality of collapsed fisheries and the permanent degradation of their marine environment, warned a new report. (irinnews.org)

NEW YORK Tuesday, November 20, 2007 (IRIN) - In a January report, Save the Children UK - one of the more vocal non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on humanitarian financing reforms - criticised the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for being “clumsy and inefficient” in its distribution of funds to NGOs. However, by September this year their view had shifted. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Friday, November 16, 2007 (IRIN) - Lack of information is the main obstacle to paying African farmers as an incentive to protect the environment, according to a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation official. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, November 14, 2007 (IRIN) - A new tool has been developed to help humanitarian agencies and donors analyse a disaster situation, make a comparison with another disaster that might be unfolding in a different part of the globe, and plan and prioritise their response to a particular crisis accordingly. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Tuesday, November 13, 2007 (IRIN) - Children in West Africa are as likely to be raped, trafficked, beaten or abused and less likely to go to school, receive proper healthcare or be properly nourished, compared to 15 years ago, despite binding legislation meant to improve children’s situation. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, November 08, 2007 (IRIN) - Food monitors are concerned that people in West African countries who rely on international imports of wheat and rice are going to struggle to buy enough to eat this year due to high commodity prices. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, October 26, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 399 for 20 - 26 October 2007 (irinnews.org)

NAIROBI Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (IRIN) - Worldwide, more than a billion people live in slums, with as many as one million in Kibera, Africa’s largest such settlement, in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Slum Survivors, IRIN’s first full-length documentary, tells some of their stories. (irinnews.org)

For twenty years, Cape Verdean music has been personified internationally by just one singer, the magnificent Cesaria Evora-the "barefoot diva," so-called following her decision always to perform shoeless, in ... via All About Jazz

Cape Verde's Agriculture and Environment minister, Maria Madalena Brito Neves, on Wednesday when visiting the Capanda Dam, in Malanje Province's Cacuso District, praised the level of development that Angola has achieved in the last six years of effective peace. (AllAfrica)

DAKAR Saturday, October 20, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 398 for 13 - 19 October (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, October 12, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 397 for 6 - 12 October 2007 (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, October 11, 2007 (IRIN) - The creation of a global Arms Trade Treaty currently being debated by the United Nations’ first committee would particularly benefit Africa according to various arms control experts. (irinnews.org)

OUAGADOUGOU Tuesday, October 09, 2007 (IRIN) - The end of the rainy season in Africa could trigger the worst meningitis epidemic to hit the continent in a decade, which the international community is poorly prepared to handle, the World Health Organization warned on 9 October. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Monday, September 24, 2007 (IRIN) - Some three million primary and secondary school students in West Africa will begin school several weeks late this year, while others hold their first days of classes in warehouses, because of unprecedented flooding in the region. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, September 21, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 394 for 15 - 21 September 2007 (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Friday, September 14, 2007 (IRIN) - IRIN-WA Weekly Round-up 393 for 8 - 14 September 2007 (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, September 12, 2007 (IRIN) - US charity CARE International made headlines last month when it said it would turn down US government aid to sell American food in developing countries. The funds generated by "monetisation" programmes typically were reinvested into other projects. (irinnews.org)

Cape Verde's Agriculture and Environment minister, Maria Madalena das Neves, who is in the country since last Sunday, is to visit Pungo Andongo Farm this Wednesday, located in Cacuso District, Malange Province, to learn of the functioning of the undertaking. (AllAfrica)