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Angola and Cape Verde are members of the African Union, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Group of 77 and the United Nations.
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Angola and Cape Verde are members of the African Union, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Group of 77 and the United Nations.
Both Angola and Cape Verde were united for four hundred years as part of the Portuguese Empire. In 1914, the first recorded immigrants from Cape Verde from Kongo kingdom arrived. In the 1940s, Cape Verde suffered a devastating cycle of droughts and famines that killed almost half of the population of the then colony. Due to these conditions, the first great wave of emigration to Angola occurred. [1]
In July 1975, Cape Verde obtained its independence from Portugal and four months later, in November 1975, Angola also obtained its independence. Soon afterwards, both nations established diplomatic relations.
Soon after Angola's independence, Angola entered into a civil war. After the South African invasion of Angola as part of the South African Border War ; Cape Verde created an air corridor that allowed Cuban forces to travel from the Island of Sal to Luanda in the name of solidarity with Angola. [1]
Both nations work closely within the Portuguese language community. There have been several visits between leaders of both nations. In June 2021, Angolan President João Lourenço paid an official visit to Cape Verde. [2]
Both nations have signed several bilateral agreements such as an Extradition Treaty (2010); Agreement on Defence Cooperation (2013); Agreement on visas exemption for ordinary passports for citizens of both countries (2018); Agreement to Avoid Double Taxation (2019); Agreement on Tourism (2019); and an Agreement for the Reciprocal Promotion and Protection of Investments (2020). [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
There are direct flights between both nations with Cabo Verde Airlines and TAAG Angola Airlines.
Praia is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Located on the southern coast of Santiago island, within the Sotavento Islands group, the city is the seat of the Praia Municipality. Praia is the economic, political, and cultural center of Cape Verde.
The Community of Portuguese Language Countries, also known as the Lusophone Community, is an international organization and political association of Lusophone nations across four continents, where Portuguese is an official language. The CPLP operates as a privileged, multilateral forum for the mutual cooperation of the governments, economies, non-governmental organizations, and peoples of the Lusofonia. The CPLP consists of 9 member states and 32 associate observers, located in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania, totaling 37 countries and 4 organizations.
Boa Vista, also written as Boavista, is a desert-like island that belongs to the Cape Verde Islands. At 631.1 km2 (243.7 sq mi), it is the third largest island of the Cape Verde archipelago.
Santiago is the largest island of Cape Verde, its most important agricultural centre and home to half the nation's population. Part of the Sotavento Islands, it lies between the islands of Maio and Fogo. It was the first of the islands to be settled: the town of Ribeira Grande was founded in 1462. Santiago is home to the nation's capital city of Praia.
Angola–Portugal relations are the bilateral relations between Angola and Portugal. Relations between the two are intrinsically tied because of the Portuguese Empire with Angola under Portuguese rule from 1575–1975.
Angola–Brazil relations are the bilateral relations between Angola and Brazil. As former Portuguese colonies, Angola and Brazil share many cultural ties, including language and religion. Both nations are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Group of 77 and the United Nations.
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira, and the Savage Isles.
The Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 is an international treaty whose purpose is to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language. It was signed in Lisbon, on 16 December 1990, at the end of a negotiation, begun in 1980, between the Sciences Academy of Lisbon and the Brazilian Academy of Letters. The signatories included official representatives from all of the Portuguese-language countries except East Timor, which was under Indonesian occupation at the time, but later adhered to the Agreement, in 2004.
Ricardo Achiles Rangel was a Mozambican photojournalist and photographer.
Mass media in Cape Verde includes aspects of telecommunications, television and radio.
Onésimo Silveira was a Cape Verdean politician and writer.
Cape Verde was a colony of the Portuguese Empire from the initial settlement of the Cape Verde Islands in 1462 until the independence of Cape Verde in 1975.
Brazil – Cape Verde relations refer to the bilateral relations between the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Cape Verde. Both nations are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Group of 77 and the United Nations.
Angola–Mexico relations are the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Angola and the United Mexican States. Both nations are members of the United Nations. Neither country has a resident ambassador.
Cape Verde–Guinea Bissau relations refers to the bilateral relationship between the Republic of Cape Verde and the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Cape Verde is an island country about 900 km north-west of Guinea-Bissau, a coastal West African country. Both were colonies of the Portuguese Empire and they campaigned together for independence with a plan for unification, but the countries separated after 1980.
Quartel Jaime Mota is a historical building in the historic city centre (Plateau) of Praia, Cape Verde. It is situated at the southern end of Avenida Andrade Corvo, near the Presidential Palace of Cape Verde. It was built between 1823 and 1826 as a military barracks. The present structure in Neo-Manueline style dates from 1872, and was further expanded and modified in the late 19th and early 20th century. After independence, it was named after Jaime Mota, a Cape Verdean militant of PAIGC who was killed in Portuguese Guinea.
The Literature of Cape Verde is among the most important in West Africa, it is the second richest in West Africa after Mali and modern day Mauritania. It is also the richest in the Lusophone portion of Africa. Most works are written in Portuguese, but there are also works in Capeveredean Creole, French and notably English.
Cape Verde–Portugal relations are the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Cabo Verde and the Portuguese Republic. Both nations are members of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries and the United Nations.
Both Angola and Mozambique are members of the African Union, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, Southern African Development Community and the United Nations.
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