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The United States State Department announced Monday, July 19, that former Guantanamo prisoner Abd-al-Nisr Mohammed Khantumani has arrived in Cape Verde, and thanked Cape Verdean authorities for their willingness to accept the former inmate. In Cape Verde, the government has declined to comment on the case, alleging that it has nothing more to say about the issue.
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The case of Cape Verde’s success within the context of sub-Saharan Africa will be highlighted Monday, July 19, by President Pedro Pires in Spanish capital Madrid, where he is the guest of honor at an international conference on development policies on the African continent. In Madrid, from where he will continue on to Angolan capital Luanda, Pedro Pires will meet with King Juan Carlos and with the head of the Spanish government, José Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero.
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The president of the Republic of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, arrived at approximately 6:30 pm Sunday in Praia, where he was welcomed by his Cape Verdean homologue Pedro Pires. In a message to journalists, Cavaco Silva affirmed that Cape Verde is in the hearts of the Portuguese people, and that his trip to Cape Verde is intended to reinforce cooperation between Praia and Lisbon.
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Cape Verde today marks the 35th anniversary of its independence from Portugal, fulfilling the designs of the flag that waved in the wind for the first time on July 5, 1975, announcing a free country aware of its own sense of belonging and that insisted on building its own world on the unbearable lightness of being. This year’s independence day coincides with events that attest to Cape Verde’s diplomatic importance in modern days.
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Cape Verde may be given the vice-presidency of the ECOWAS Commission, according to Cape Verdean Prime Minister José Maria Neves. Fernando Wahnon is the name being indicated by ECOWAS ministers, and, if there is consensus among the other countries in the organization, the diplomat may be named as the ECOWAS Commission’s second-in-command before the end of the summit of ECOWAS heads of state and government on Sal.
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