The suspect said to have been identified by Portuguese police investigating the kidnapping Madeleine McCann was a convicted criminal who had avoided deportation back to his native Cape Verde, reports say ...
The Mo Ibrahim award, a prestigious multimillion-dollar prize, has not been awarded in four of the past five years, raising questions about democratic advances....
The team fielded an ineligible player in a match Saturday, the latest error to embarrass African soccer in the 2014 World Cup qualifying cycle....
South Africa and the Cape Verde Islands were knocked out of the African Nations Cup by Mali and Ghana in the quarterfinals....
Ms. �vora, a singer in the style called morna, brought the music of the tiny Cape Verde islands to a worldwide audience....
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires was praised for improving conditions in his country and for not seeking to extend his tenure beyond constitutional limits....
There have been three winners of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, which awards rulers who govern well and step down peacefully, since it was launched by the Sudanese mobile phone tycoon in 2007. ...
An annual £3.2 million prize for leaders on the continent who govern well and step down peacefully has been awarded for the first time in three years. ...
Before Mo Ibrahim announced his idea for a controversial prize to award cash prizes to good African leaders, his name was little known outside the world of international business. ...

Mr. Pereira fought Portugal’s colonial rule of the islands in West Africa and was the head of state from 1975 to 1991....
Three West African presidents met with Ivory Coast’s leader, Laurent Gbagbo, on Tuesday to deliver a regional group’s ultimatum that he step down or face removal by force....
A Russian ship freed the Arctic Sea’s 15 crewmembers, arresting eight hijackers without firing a shot, Russia’s defense minister said on Tuesday....
The Arctic Sea, missing since last month, was 300 miles off Cape Verde, the Russia Defense Ministry said....
It was not immediately clear if the ransom demand was legitimate, and the whereabouts of the Arctic Sea, its 15 crew members and its cargo of timber remain a mystery....

On the final day of a seven-nation trip, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton reaffirmed her promise to renovate relations with Africa....

The West African nation of Cape Verde, where almost everyone has a relative abroad, is a microcosm of the forces of migration that are remaking societies across the globe....

Foes of the death penalty say fewer Africans than ever before are being hanged, beaten, shot, shocked, stoned or poisoned by their governments....