Cape Health Verde
Cape Verde
ENTRY/EXIT REQUIREMENTS: A passport and visa are required. Visa approval can take several days and Cape Verde issues two types of tourist visas: a single-entry visa valid for up to 90 days or a multiple entry visa valid for one year. See our Foreign Entry Requirements brochure for more information on Cape Verde and other countries. Visit the Embassy of Cape Verde website at www.capeverdeusa.org for the most current visa information or contact the Embassy of the Republic of Cape Verde, 3415 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington D.C. 20007, tel. (202) 965-6820; or the Consulate General of Cape Verde in Boston (tel. 617-353-0014). Overseas, inquiries should be made to the nearest Cape Verde embassy or consulate. ... [Read More]
Cape Verde (04/05)
The United States provided emergency humanitarian aid and economic assistance to Cape Verde in the period immediately following Cape Verde's independence, as well as after natural disasters, including a hurricane that struck the island of Brava in 1982, and after a severe volcanic eruption on Fogo in 1995. The United States normally delivers about 15,000 metric tons of grain yearly to Cape Verde. Cape Verde also is eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), and has signed an Open Skies agreement to facilitate air travel safety and expansion. Given its comparatively high marks worldwide for good governance, Cape Verde qualified for funding in the summer of 2004 for assistance from the U.S. Government-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC); Cape Verde now is negotiating a compact for a three-year assistance package worth over $80 million to address rural economic expansion, infrastructure development, and development of tourism and a comm ... [Read More]
Global Development and Foreign Aid - US Department of State
The funds will consolidate a joint effort between the Bolivian government and the private sector, supporting an "umbrella" program of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) for five years. (complete text) Cape Verde Signs Compact with Millennium Challenge CorporationBecomes second African country to reach agreement under Bush initiativeCape Verde has been named the second African country – behind Madagascar -- to sign a compact with the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, the White House announces. In the 10 months since it began receiving country proposals, the corporation has approved more than $600 million in funding. [Read More]
Country Commercial Guide
Rua Abilio Macedo n 6, Praia, Cape Verde Tel.: (238)-261-56-16 Fax: (238)-261-13-55 Versão em Português [Read More]
Cape Verde
Cape Verde is a multiparty parliamentary democracy in which constitutional powers are shared among the elected head of state, President Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, former President of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV); the head of government, Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves; and Neves' party, the PAICV. In 2001, Pires was elected by a margin of 12 votes over the country's former prime minister and Movement for Democracy (MPD) president, Carlos Veiga, in what the National Electoral Commission and international media judged to be free and fair elections. Nationwide municipal elections held in March also were considered to be free and fair. The judiciary generally was independent, but understaffed and inefficient. ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Cape Verde provided skilled sailors and workers for the whaling ships from New England and the Netherlands. Since those ships concluded their multiyear voyages by signing off the crew at their home ports, large Cape Verdean communities came into existence in New England and Northern Europe. The first U.S. Consulate in Cape Verde was established in 1816 to protect the whaling fleet and its crews. In the 20th Century, Cape Verdeans in the United States established themselves across the continent, and are now found as far away as Hawaii. In all, there are more Cape Verdeans living outside the archipelago than within it, including an estimated 350,000 in America. Senegal and Angola each have tens of thousands of Cape Verdeans. There are emigrants in Portugal, Italy, Luxembourg, France (10-15,000) and Holland (8-10,000). There are substantial numbers in Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Sweden. These processes have given Cape Verde its internationa ... [Read More]
Self Help Program
Rua Abilio Macedo n 6, Praia, Cape Verde Tel.: (238)-261-56-16 Fax: (238)-261-13-55 Versão em Português [Read More]
Remarks by President Neves at the Dialogue on Democracy
A recent survey conducted by a prestigious American university on the attitude of Cape-verdeans toward democracy shows that Cape-verdeans assume democracy as a value that is intrinsic to their culture and as having no other alternative to it. ... In Cape Verde, we are fully engaged in doing our share, because we know that we still need strong support in order to be able to successfully take-off toward development. ... In fact, the rights of minorities are scrupulously respected and this is without any doubt one of the basic factors of the political stability and social peace that Cape Verde enjoys. ... [Read More]
The United States Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria: Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola Are Models In Africa, Says USAID Chief
If it stays the course, Natsios indicated Mozambique should one day achieve the status of Cape Verde, which he said is "so prosperous now," after adhering to a successful development strategy, that "We shut down the USAID mission there in the mid-1990s." He said, "I saw the [Cape Verde] Prime Minister recently and he said, 'You should start it up again,' but I said, 'No, you're an example to other countries. You were so poor, but now the per capita income' is one of the highest in Africa." ... [Read More]
Africa
1111--07/30/03 Church Tower Clock - Cape Verde; São Nicolau Island, Cape Verde ... 1111-- Youth of Cape Verde Display Their Fashion Designs ... Bureau of Public Affairs Electronic Information and Publications Office [Read More]
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