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Migration Key to Country's History
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, June 19, 2007
he small West African island nation of Cape Verde, which was uninhabited when Portuguese navigators discovered it in 1460, now has more citizens living abroad than at home. And growing numbers of women are joining the ... more
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Country No Longer Classified as 'Least Developed'
allAfrica.com - Thursday, June 14, 2007
United Nations official today hailed the graduation of Cape Verde from the category of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) while cautioning that the State's success should not lull the UN or other development partners into thinking that its problems have ... more
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West Africa: Food needed urgently for hundreds of thousands - WFP
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Wednesday, November 14, 2001 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) will face a break in its operations to help feed hundreds of thousands of destitute and vulnerable people in West Africa, especially in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, unless more contributions are received immediately, WFP said on Wednesday.... more
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CAPE VERDE: US to give $14.5 million worth of food aid
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Tuesday, December 18, 2001 (IRIN) - The United States is to fund a food aid programme in Cape Verde worth US $15.5 million over a five-year period, Thomas Gibb, country representative for the implementing NGO, ACDI/VOCA, told IRIN on ... more
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West Africa: IRIN Focus on food security in the Sahelian countries //Yearender//
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Sunday, December 30, 2001 (IRIN) - ... more
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CAPE VERDE: Protecting babies against Hepatitis B
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Thursday, January 10, 2002 (IRIN) - Cape Verde has now included Hepatitis-B among diseases for which its babies are vaccinated. The hepatitis vaccinations started on 1 January and target infants under the age of one year, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) ... more
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CAPE VERDE: International environmentalists to meet
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Friday, March 01, 2002 (IRIN) - Environmentalists and government officials from 50 countries will meet on 5-8 March in the Cape Verde capital, Praia, to assess progress since the 1992 UN Convention on Fighting Desertification, and prepare for an Agenda 21 summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa... more
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CAPE VERDE-SENEGAL: Visiting French minister to discuss partnerships
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Monday, March 04, 2002 (IRIN) - Senegal and France will on Tuesday sign a partnership accord which will pave way for four more agreements to be signed in the next few weeks for projects in environment, health, and education totalling some 2.7 billion francs (US $ 3.6 million), the... more
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CAPE VERDE: International forum links desertification to poverty
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Wednesday, March 27, 2002 (IRIN) - Environmentalists and government officials have produced a unified position among countries most affected by desertification following a recent four-day international forum in Cape Verde's capital, Praia, the UN Development Programme reported on ... more
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CAPE VERDE: Thousands face food shortages
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Friday, June 07, 2002 (IRIN) - Thousands of people in Cape Verde have been hit by food shortages due in part to poor harvests, according to UN agencies which have begun channelling aid to the affected ... more
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CAPE VERDE: WFP appeals for aid
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Friday, June 28, 2002 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a US $1.3-million emergency food operation to help feed some 30,000 Cape Verdeans who face hunger, WFP said on ... more
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CAPE VERDE: Help still needed to stave off hunger
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Tuesday, July 30, 2002 (IRIN) - An emergency programme to help the most vulnerable of 30,000 Cape Verdeans threatened by hunger remains underfunded, WFP said on ... more
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CAPE VERDE: Government creates committee to tackle bad harvest
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Friday, September 06, 2002 (IRIN) - The government of Cape Verde on Thursday created an inter-ministerial committee to help minimise the anticipated impact of a bad food harvest this year, among other matters, according to news ... more
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CAPE VERDE: ADF loan for food security, environment
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Wednesday, September 18, 2002 (IRIN) - The African Development Fund on Wednesday approved a US $7.91 million loan to the island nation of Cape Verde to finance an environment and food security ... more
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WEST AFRICA: Slight drop in Sahelian cereal production forecast
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Friday, December 27, 2002 (IRIN) - Cereal production in West Africa's Sahelian belt is expected to be three percent less in 2002-2003 than in the previous agricultural season, USAID's Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS Net) said in its latest monthly food security update, issued on 23 December.
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CAPE VERDE-GAMBIA: WFP appeals for $28 million to avert Sahelian food crisis
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Tuesday, January 28, 2003 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday launched an appeal for US $28 million to provide emergency relief food to feed thousands of people threatened by starvation in five Western Sahel ... more
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CAPE VERDE: Project to tackle unemployment launched
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Monday, May 12, 2003 (IRIN) - Two United Nations agencies launched on Friday a two-year volunteer project in the Cape Verde islands, to curb high youth unemployment and tackle land degradation, the UN ... more
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CAPE VERDE: World Bank lends US $11.5 million to develop private sector
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
BIDJAN Thursday, May 15, 2003 (IRIN) - The World Bank on Wednesday approved a US $11.5 million loan for Cape Verde to develop the private sector of the economy in the arid island state and make it more ... more
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CAPE VERDE: Atlantic survivors want more of the world
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
AO FELIPE, FOGO ISLAND Wednesday, October 29, 2003 (IRIN) - At close to 3,000 metres, the Pico do Fogo volcano is by far the most imposing landmark in the arid Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa. The village of Cha das Caldeiras, within its vast crater... more
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CAPE VERDE: Atlantic survivors want more of the world
IRIN - Thursday, May 17, 2007
AO FELIPE, FOGO ISLAND Wednesday, October 29, 2003 (IRIN) - At close to 3,000 metres, the Pico do Fogo volcano is by far the most imposing landmark in the arid Cape Verde Islands off the coast of West Africa. The village of Cha das Caldeiras, within its vast crater... more
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