Cape Verde
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| Capital | Praia |
|---|---|
| Recognised national languages | Cape Verdean Creole |
| Currency | Cape Verdean escudo |
| Points of interest | Pico do Fogo |
| Buracona | |
| Deserto de Viana | |
| Official language | Portuguese |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 789877 |
About Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands in the central Atlantic Ocean. It forms part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Savage Isles.
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...By Mayeni JonesBBC West Africa correspondentThe brother of man who died after a boat carrying dozens of migrants was found off Cape Verde has told the BBC they were trying to reach Spain...
More than 60 migrants feared dead at sea off Cape Verde coast
...By Suzanne LeighBBC NewsMore than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa...
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... It said popular destinations this summer were Turkey, the Caribbean, the Balearics, Greece, the Canaries and Cape Verde...
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... He was not an Amílcar Cabral, liberator of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, or a Thomas Sankara, the anti-imperialist revolutionary who led Burkina Faso - two men slain before their life s work was done...
UK's warmest ever Remembrance Sunday recorded
... BBC Weather s Simon King said: " A south-west wind is dragging in air from the Tropics, around the Azores and Cape Verde - where it is still warm at this time of year - and that milder air is spreading north to the UK...
Why is the weather so warm this November?
... " A south-west wind is dragging in air from the Tropics, around the Azores and Cape Verde - where it is still warm at this time of year - and that milder air is spreading north to the UK, " he explains...
'My dad, the claw hair clip inventor'
... My birth mother, Maria, is from Cape Verde off the West African coast...
More than 60 migrants feared dead at sea off Cape Verde coast
By Suzanne LeighBBC News
More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants was found off Cape Verde in West Africa .
Thirty-eight people were rescued, including children aged 12 to 16, The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
An estimated 100 people, mostly from Senegal and Sierra Leone , were said to have been on board The Boat and had been at sea for a month.
It is not immediately clear when The Incident occurred.
The vessel was first spotted on Monday, police told the AFP news agency. Initial reports suggested The Boat sank, but it was later clarified that The Boat was found drifting.
The wooden pirogue style boat was seen almost 320km (200 miles) off The Island of Sal by a Spanish fishing boat, which alerted authorities, police said.
Senegal's foreign ministry said in a statement issued late on Tuesday that The Boat had left Senegal on 10 July with 101 passengers on board.
The ministry said it was liaising with authorities in Cape Verde for the repatriation of survivors, one of whom was from Guinea-Bissau.
Cape Verde is around 600km off the coast of West Africa on a maritime migration route to the Spanish Canary Islands , often used as a gateway to the European Union .
IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli said: " Safe and regular pathways to migration are sorely lacking, which is what gives room to smugglers and traffickers to put people on these deadly journeys. "
At least 559 people died trying to reach the Canary Islands in 2022, according to figures from the IOM, while 126 people died or went missing on the same route in The First six months of this year with 15 shipwrecks recorded.
At least 15 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of the Senegalese capital Dakar in late July.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
