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B-ROLL: Land Forces Summit 2025 hosts plenary on leveraging professional military education for future operations
DVIDS - Georgia
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April 11, 2025
U.S. Army Col. Sean McClure, associate dean and senior military advisor at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, moderates Plenary 4: Leveraging Professional Military Education for Future Operations during the African Land Forces Summit (ALFS)...
Henley Passport Index: Visa-Free Countries For Indians Rise To 59
Times Now
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July 22, 2025
Visa-Free Countries For Indians Rise To 59 As Passport Strength Improves: Full List Inside There’s good news for Indian travellers! According to the Henley Passport Index 2025, the Indian passport has made a significant leap—rising from 85th to...
Eco-volunteering with sea turtles in Cape Verde"
NewsBytes
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Summarize Eco-volunteering in Cape Verde offers a unique opportunity to help conserve endangered sea turtles, particularly the loggerhead species. Volunteers patrol beaches at night, relocate vulnerable nests, tag turtles, and engage in community...
‘Shifting baselines’ in Cabo Verde after 50 years of declining fish stocks
Mongabay
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December 16, 2024
In Cabo Verde, as in many low-income countries in Africa, the historical record of fish catch is incomplete, making it hard to know what’s been lost and what’s required to fully rebuild. In a new study, researchers interviewed fish workers to...
Cape Verde gets special grant for preschool education
Xinhua News Agency
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PRAIA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- The Global Partnership for Education (GPE), in partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund or UNICEF, on Monday announced a grant of 5 million U.S. dollars to improve access to and quality of early childhood...
Cape Verde sees significant drop in poverty rate over eight years
Xinhua News Agency
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PRAIA, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Cape Verde's absolute poverty rate has decreased over the past eight years, falling from 35.5 percent in 2015 to 24.75 percent in 2023, the country's National Institute of Statistics (INE) said Thursday. Absolute poverty...
Starlink to boost Cape Verde's tech infrastructure with launch
Techpoint Africa
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December 11, 2024
Starlink, the satellite Internet service by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has launched in Cape Verde, marking a significant step in its African expansion strategy. This move aims to enhance Internet connectivity across the continent, especially in...
Cuba Is on the US Immigration Red List, According to The New York Times
14ymedio
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April 8, 2025
It is unclear whether citizens of the 43 countries included who have valid visas or permanent residency will be affected. Family members of the migrants waiting at the airport in Miami / 14ymedio 14ymedio, Havana, 15 March 2025 — The Trump...
Cabo Verde: Quarter of population aged 15-35 out of work, school, training
Macau Business
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October 21, 2024
The Cabo Verdean National Statistics Institute (INE) estimates that a quarter of the population aged between 15 and 35 was out of work and out of education or training in the second quarter of the year. “The Continuous Multiobjective Inquiry for...
Cape Verde’s New Wave of Women Vocalists: Stepping Out of Cesária Évora’s Shadow
World Music Central
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October 5, 2024
Cape Verde has long been celebrated for its musical heritage in which its women vocalists have played a pivotal role down the centuries. The archipelago’s unique blend of African, European, and Latin American influences has produced a sound that...
CityLine: Revitalizing Boston after Dark
WCVB Channel 5 Boston - Massachusetts
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July 27, 2025
CityLine: Revitalizing Boston after Dark The person tasked with keeping the city open late. FROM JERK CHICKEN TO OXTAIL. THIS NEXT RESTAURANT IS A MOUTHWATERING CROSS-CULTURAL FEAST. SHAYNA SEYMOUR HAS MORE. DORCHESTER FOUR CORNERS NEIGHBORHOOD...
Settler Colonialism in the Light of Fanon
Black Agenda Report
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A century after their birth, the ghosts of Cabral, Malcolm, Lumumba, and Fanon still haunt the western empire, demanding not remembrance, but revolution. Originally published in Said Bouamama's blog. The year 2024 was the centenary of the birth of...
VINCI - First Half 2025 Financial Results
MENAFN
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July 30, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) Nanterre, 30 July 2025 FIRST HALF 2025 FINANCIAL RESULTS Revenue up 3%, driven by Concessions (up 8%) and Energy Solutions (up 6%) Higher Ebitda and operating earnings in all business lines Net income close to that...
Cape Verde invests in travel industry degrees to boost economy
University World News
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CAPE VERDE Cape Verde’s Atlantic Technical University (Universidade Técnica do Atlântico), or UTA, opened an institute focusing on the travel industry on 1 October 2024, offering new degrees in tourism management and promotion and civil aviation...
Seven new airline routes & package hols for Brits in 2025 from Cape Verde with easyJet to Nile river cruises with TUI
The Scottish Sun
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December 9, 2024
A NEW year is fast approaching and with it comes a fresh travel calendar of hot spots waiting to be explored. Airlines and tour operators are launching some exciting new destinations for 2025, from bucket-list cruises around Egypt to reindeer...
Madeira Feast 2025: When does it start and what's new this year?
Taunton Daily Gazette - Massachusetts
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NEW BEDFORD — The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is back again starting Thursday, July 31, and being that this year is the first feast since South Coast Rail began service back in March, organizers wanted to encourage out-of-town attendees to use...
SA man to row from Cape Verde to Cayenne to raise funds for abandoned babies
IOL
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December 5, 2024
A South African adventurer has taken it in his stride to take on a trek for a good cause. Gerhard Moolman, 53, a fearless adrenaline junkie, launched his one-man rowing expedition across the Atlantic Ocean to raise critical funds for a...
1 Arrested in Cape Verde for Portugal Visa Appointment Fraud
Schengen Visa Info
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November 25, 2024
One person was arrested in Santa Cruz, Cape Verde, for accusations of falsifying documents and fraud in scheduling visa appointments for Portugal. The news was shared by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which also informed that the court ordered...
Cabo Verde devoted to ocean management: president
Xinhua News Agency
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- As an ocean nation heavily dependent on marine resources, Cabo Verde in the ocean decade focuses on local and global actions to promote sustainable ocean management, José Maria Pereira Neves, president of Cabo...
AltSchool wants to provide AI education in African languages including Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba
Techpoint Africa
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March 27, 2025
Nigerian edtech startup AltSchool has announced the launch of an initiative that would help Africans gain access to AI education. The initiative called AI for 10M Africans will help people at every stage learn how to use AI. Speaking at a media...