The Russian captain and crew of a cargo ship captured last year in Cape Verde with the biggest cocaine seized in the country were found guilty…
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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 in the…
Police in Cape Verde seized nearly ten tonnes of cocaine and arrested 11 people on a Russian vessel docked in the capital, police said, in the…
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Senegalese Marines, Senegalese Navy, and Cabo Verde Coast Guard came together for a debriefing conference concluding Operation Junction…
The U.S. Defense Department on Sunday announced that a long-held inmate at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, Shawqi Awad Balzuhair, had been transferred to the government…
Eleven men were shot dead in Cape Verde on Tuesday, including eight soldiers, a local civilian and two Spanish citizens, the minister of Internal Administration for…
Authorities in Cape Verde have seized 280 kilograms of cocaine in a bust in the Atlantic from a Brazil-registered fishing vessel as it prepared to transfer…
The Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul (DDG 74) arrived in Praia, Cape Verde for a scheduled stop for fuel and supplies on 5 November.…
The Spanish military has begun training the Cape Verde’s armed forces with a focus on establishing a special forces unit. The Spanish Ministry of Defence said…
Governments in West Africa should decriminalise drug use and treat the issue as a health problem, because a “war on drugs” will fail in the region…
Naval forces from the United States along with African and European maritime partners on Thursday commenced the fourth annual multinational exercise Saharan Express 2014. The exercise,…
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Portland has trained with Cape Verde’s Coast Guard in order to strengthen ties with the nation and help prevent drug smuggling…
Brazil’s Minister of Defence has said that his government will donate aircraft to Cape Verde for maritime patrol duties, as it strengthens defence cooperation with the…
The Cape Verde Coast Guard has commissioned a new 51 metre long Stan Patrol SPA 5009 patrol vessel built by the Damen shipyard. The vessel, based…
Cape Verde is the latest Member State to accede to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) that prosecutes individuals for…
