Tag: Cape Verde
Russians guilty in Cape Verde cocaine bust
The Russian captain and crew of a cargo ship captured last year in Cape Verde with the biggest cocaine seized in the country were...
ISS: Can Cape Verde keep drug traffickers out?
In early 2019, Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) police found 9.5 tons of cocaine on a Panama-flagged vessel – the biggest such drug seizure made...
Massive cocaine haul in Cape Verde
Police in Cape Verde seized nearly ten tonnes of cocaine and arrested 11 people on a Russian vessel docked in the capital, police said,...
Maritime security Op Junction Rain 2017 concludes
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Senegalese Marines, Senegalese Navy, and Cabo Verde Coast Guard came together for a debriefing...
Guantanamo detainee released to Cabo Verde
The U.S. Defense Department on Sunday announced that a long-held inmate at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, had been...
Eleven shot dead in Cape Verde, including two Spanish citizens
Eleven men were shot dead in Cape Verde on Tuesday, including eight soldiers, a local civilian and two Spanish citizens, the minister...
Cape Verde seizes 280 kg of cocaine from Brazilian fishing boat
Authorities in Cape Verde have seized 280 kilograms of cocaine in a bust in the Atlantic from a Brazil-registered fishing vessel as...
USS McFaul Visits Cape Verde
The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) arrived in Praia, Cape Verde for a scheduled stop for fuel and...
Spain training Cape Verde military
The Spanish military has begun training the Cape Verde's armed forces with a focus on establishing a special forces unit.
The Spanish Ministry...
Call for decriminalisation of drugs in West Africa
Governments in West Africa should decriminalise drug use and treat the issue as a health problem, because a "war on drugs" will...
Call for decriminalisation of drugs in West Africa
Governments in West Africa should decriminalise drug use and treat the issue as a health problem, because a "war on drugs" will...
Exercise Saharan Express 2014 begins
Naval forces from the United States along with African and European maritime partners on Thursday commenced the fourth annual multinational exercise Saharan...
British frigate HMS Portland conducts training with Cape Verde Coast Guard
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Portland has trained with Cape Verde's Coast Guard in order to strengthen ties with the nation and...
Brazil to donate Bandeirante aircraft to Cape Verde
Brazil's Minister of Defence has said that his government will donate aircraft to Cape Verde for maritime patrol duties, as it strengthens...
Cape Verde commissions Stan 5009 patrol vessel
The Cape Verde Coast Guard has commissioned a new 51 metre long Stan Patrol SPA 5009 patrol vessel built by the Damen...
Cape Verde ratifies treaty setting up International Criminal Court
Cape Verde is the latest Member State to accede to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
Cape Verde opposition leader wins election runoff
Cape Verde opposition candidate Jorge Carlos Fonseca has won a presidential election runoff in the west African island nation, securing 54.45 percent...
Cape Verde presidential vote to be decided in runoff
Cape Verde's presidential election will be decided in an Aug. 21 runoff after the leading candidates failed to win outright victory in...
Cape Verdeans vote in tight presidential contest
Voters in the West African archipelago of Cape Verde went to the polls in a hotly contested election that threatens to split...
