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Cape Verde

June 2024

  • Louise Mauroy-Panzani  in Àma Gloria

    Àma Gloria review – French coming-of-age drama is a modest gem

    Marie Amachoukeli’s low-key tale of a child and her nanny boasts a star turn from six-year-old Louise Mauroy-Panzani
  • Beautifully detailed … l to r, Ilça Moreno Zego and Louise Mauroy-Panzani in Ama Gloria.

    Àma Gloria review – amazing performances in sensitive drama about a kid and her nanny

    Six year old Louise Mauroy-Panzani is wonderful as Cléo, strongly bonded to her carer Gloria, who has to leave her
  • José Maria Neves talking into a microphone in front of a green marble wall

    Rise of far right makes reparations debate tough, says Cape Verde president

    José Maria Neves says governments should still try to have such conversations and build solutions using diplomatic corridors

January 2024

  • Closeup of hands in surgical gloves holding a malaria test

    Cape Verde becomes fourth African country to eliminate malaria

    With no recorded cases since 2017, the archipelago has had a long journey to become free of the disease, which killed 608,000 people globally in 2022

August 2023

  • The beach at Fass Boye

    Anger over fish stocks as Senegal village mourns boat disaster dead

  • Aerial view of Fass Boye shore

    Cape Verde boat survivors say some jumped out to try to reach land

  • A man walks past pirogues in Fass Boye, the type of fishing boat which capsized off the coast of Cape Verde

    Cape Verde boat disaster: vessel drifted for month after alarm raised, says NGO

  • Pirogue capsized in Dakar<br>epa10766329 A beached pirogue lies on the sand in Ouakam, Dakar, Senegal, 24 July 2023. At least 15 people have died after this pirogue capsized in the middle of the night. The origin of the pirogue, the number of passengers and the original destination is not yet known. EPA/JEROME FAVRE

    At least 63 people feared dead after boat found off Cape Verde

October 2021

  • A male loggerhead sea turtle glides through the pristine waters off the coast of Sal, Cape Verde.

    The age of extinction
    Boom time for Cape Verde’s sea turtles as conservation pays off

    The number of nesting sites on the archipelago has risen dramatically, but global heating sees male population plummet

September 2021

  • Carlitos Fernandes fishes on his home island of Maio in Cape Verde

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Cape Verde’s ‘fish detectives’ try to keep extinction at bay

    As boats from bigger islands flock to fish off Maio, locals take turns to safeguard their pristine waters

August 2020

  • Europe's Dreamer Luca

    Europe's dreamers
    'I just don't exist': the Italian chef Italy will not recognise

    Luca Neves was born in Rome and has always lived there, but for 12 years he has been undocumented, trapped outside hardline migration laws

December 2016

  • FILE - In this June 27, 2006 file photo, reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, U.S. military guards walk within Camp Delta military-run prison, at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. Fears that Donald Trump will make good on his pledge to bring more prisoners to the U.S. base in Cuba have human rights groups making a final push for President Obama to close the detention center before he leaves office. But the odds are against that with 60 prisoners left, only a third currently cleared for release. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

    Guantánamo Bay prisoner released for resettlement in Cape Verde

    Pentagon says release of Yemeni Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, held without trial since October 2002, leaves 59 prisoners at US base in Cuba

May 2016

  • Juan Pedro, a baby with microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil.

    Brazilian strain of Zika virus confirmed in Africa, says WHO

    Type of virus blamed for South American birth abnormalities found in Cape Verde, which has had three cases of microcephaly

April 2016

  • Cape Verde soldiers arrive at a military barracks where the bodies of eight soldiers and three civilians were discovered.,

    Cape Verde soldier kills eight comrades and disappears

    Three civilians including two Spaniards also died when guard at communications outpost turned gun on those around him, say authorities

March 2016

  • A girl with microcephaly and her mother in Brazil

    Microcephaly case in Cape Verde possibly linked to Zika virus

    Ministry of health in country off west Africa says baby was born to woman not among those being monitored for virus

February 2016

  • An attendee at Sao Paulo pride parade in Brazil

    LGBT change
    Seven videos that give hope for LGBTI rights around the world

    There’s a long way to go before LGBTI people can be free of fear of violence and discrimination, but these seven videos suggest acceptance is growing

October 2015

  • Fogo on Cape Verde Islands, one of the world’s most active island volcanoes

    Volcano's collapse caused mega-tsunami 240 metres high – study

    Scientists warn that similar event to collapse of volcano on Cape Verdean island of Fogo 73,000 years ago poses major threat to nearby islands

September 2015

  • Horse Money film Ventura

    Pedro Costa: Portuguese director who fashioned Gil Scott-Heron's film prayer

    With the dreamlike film Horse Money, Costa has returned to his most powerful and enduring subject: the Cape Verdean diaspora who inhabit Lisbon’s shadows. He explains how the project began as a collaboration with the US rapper and poet

October 2014

  • Ian Khama, Botswana president

    Guardian Africa network
    Botswana president Ian Khama hopes for triumph at challenging polls

    Retired general standing for re-election aims to defy critics who rate him authoritarian and eager to impose ‘puritanical discipline’

March 2014

  • Paris-based Cape Verde singer Mayra Andrade

    Mayra Andrade review – languid world music, with jazz excursions

    The Cape Verdean singer was at her best when she remembered her roots, writes Robin Denselow

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