Posts tagged: Cape Verde
Fishing in Cape Verde to account for over 50 pct of country’s exports this year
Cape Verde’s fishing sector will this year be able to account for over 50 percent of the country’s exports, the secretary of state for Marine Resources, Adalberto Vieira said Thursday in Praia.
Cited by Cape Verdean news agency Inforpress, the secretary of State said that the canning industry was set to grow considerably, mainly because of the future...
Cape Verde wind farms start construction
Cape Verde has seen the erection of the first wind turbines at the Cabeolica wind farm project, as part of a commercial-scale public private partnership (PPP) wind farm development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The four wind farms are expected to enter operation in October. When completed, the wind farms could produce up to 100 GWh a year.
A spokesperson tells...
Surrounded by turquoise waters on Cape Verde’s Sal isla
Staying in Santa Maria, Sal, is like lodging in a tropical aquarium. Flung 550km off the flank of West Africa, this Cape Verdean island is set in tropical Atlantic waters, enticing a plethora of multicoloured fish to its shores.
Santa Maria is a compact town organised on a grid pattern that stretches out along the coastline. Espargos is the island’s...
Socialist party wins Cape Verde polls
Praia – Cape Verde’s socialist party said on Monday it had won an absolute majority in parliamentary polls, extending its 10-year rule of the diverse archipelago of beaches, valleys and volcanic rock.
Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves, 50, leader of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV), told reporters: “This is...
Thousands turn out for Cape Verdean elections in Brockton
BROCKTON —Thousands of Cape Verdeans came to Brockton on Sunday to vote in their country’s governmental elections, causing traffic snarls on Herrod Avenue and North Main Street, police said.
Three police officers were called to work traffic details late Sunday afternoon at 746 North Main St., which is an elderly center for Cape Verdeans and a polling...
Fishing dock in Cape Verdean capital to undergo refurbishment
Praia, Cape Verde, 17 Jan – The fishing dock in the Cape Verdean capital of Praia is to undergo refurbishment work as part of the Regional Fishing Project for West Africa, which covers nine states in the sub-region, the Cape Verdean press reported.
This World Bank project Cape Verde will provide US$8 million and, as well as refurbishment of the fishing...
EU and Cape Verde sign new fisheries agreement
THE European Commission on behalf of the European Union has signed a new three-year protocol under the Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) with Cape Verde.
The protocol, signed on 22 December, sets fishing possibilities for EU vessels in Cape Verde’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), along with other conditions. The new protocol foresees a total...
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