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...The team is ranked 75th of 200 countries in the Fifa rankings of national sides, behind Northern Ireland, Cabo Verde and Oman....
...From Las Palmas in Gran Canaria we would be heading south-west, approximately 200 miles off the coast of West Africa and out towards Mindelo, in Cape Verde....
...Others will shake their heads and argue that it emerged more from the zouk music of the French Antilles or the joyful celebration of Cape Verde’s coladeira music....
...Their 1-0 win over unfancied Democratic Republic of Congo in the semi-finals was straightforward by the standards set over recent weeks....
...Floating 500 miles west of Senegal, Santo Antão is Africa’s most western outpost and remains one of the least-visited of Cape Verde’s nine inhabited islands....
...The stepping stones of the early Portuguese voyages, decades before Columbus, were carefully marked with dates — Cape Verde 1444, Guinea 1460, the Congo 1483, Cabo da Boa Esperança or the Cape of Good Hope...
...This is not unique to Mali: Wagner forces have also appeared in Libya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and Mozambique....
...New countries added to the “hotspot” list include Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Benin, Guinea and Cabo Verde....
...First thing’s first, yes the logo of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia is literally a badly-cropped photo of a coin. We don’t understand either. Again, glorious diversity abounds....
..., Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comores, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon...
...Cape Verde’s decision comes in defiance of an order earlier this week from a court of the Economic Community of West African States, which said his arrest was unlawful and he should be freed....
...The government said “this deployment is based on the good bilateral relations between the Republic of Rwanda and the Republic of Mozambique, following the signing of several agreements between the two countries...
...Saab was detained in Cape Verde, also known as Cabo Verde, last June on a US arrest warrant when his private jet landed to refuel....
...In northern Mozambique a group known to locals as Shabaab has loose ties with Isis and has over the past four years terrorised the northern province of Cabo Delgado....
...As part of UN missions, Rwanda has peacekeepers in South Sudan and the Central African Republic....
...The author is president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Though some believe the war on terror winds down with the US departure from Afghanistan, the threat it was supposed to address burns fiercely on...
...Abbas Mousavi, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, told the FT that the Islamic republic had “no idea what his mission was; where his destination was and why he was arrested”....
...The money trail left by LCF’s collapse led administrators to a helicopter, horses and undeveloped holiday sites in the Dominican Republic and Cape Verde....
...Some of LCF’s transactions — described as “highly suspicious” by the administrators Smith & Williamson — included loans to companies intent on developing land in Cape Verde and the Dominican Republic....
...Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe, two other former Portuguese colonies, have also struck down anti-gay laws....
...Madrid also has voting rights agreements with Bolivia, Cabo Verde, Chile, Colombia, Korea, Ecuador, Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago....
...and the Dominican Republic, and which ploughed millions of pounds of customers’ money into a web of intertwined schemes....
...the Dominican Republic with little prospect of much ever being paid back....
...The stock of public debt has jumped to 128 per cent of GDP in Cape Verde, 100 per cent in the Republic of Congo and 94 per cent in Mozambique, with the latter pair having already defaulted in recent years...
...Funds traced by administrators at LCF were lent to companies that used the money to buy a helicopter, acquire an undeveloped plot of land in the Dominican Republic and invest in a rundown holiday village...
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