Bounding across the bleak desert in a truck with heavy metal music blaring from the cabin is not quite how I imagined a holiday in Cape Verde.

After cancelling her May concert, the artist will perform in Bucharest and Brasov this October.

There is a group of Cape Verdean citizens who occasionally organize meetings in Lisbon to discuss the relations between youth and politics, as Suzano Costa explains in a video [pt]A republished by Amilcar Tavares.

There are churches where you go on a Sunday and get in and out. And there are churches where you go and can spend all afternoon with your fellow parishioners if you want.

More than 17,000 took in Saturday's Onset Cape Verdean Festival, which was a peaceful jubilee of music, sun, heritage, and food until a stabbing marred the otherwise festive celebration late in the afternoon.

Children play in the water at sunset in the port of Sal Rei, the main town of Cape Verde's Boa Vista island, July 15, 2010.

Bobby Holland The Mendes Brothers will headline the Onset Cape Verdean Festival Saturday.

For a small string of barren volcanic islands that have no natural resources, suffer from chronic droughts and are perched far off Africa's west coast, Cape Verde is punching well above its weight.

A fishing boat off Sal Island, Cape Verde. Photo: imagebroker / Alamy The Atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde sits 280 miles off the coast of west Africa , midway between Brazil and Senegal.

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