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In Cape Verde, birthplace of morna, ideas and music collide
Praia’s annual music expo provides an opportunity for West African music industry stakeholders to explore new frontiers.
The good, bad, and the ugly: West Africa’s big issues in 2022
A recap of top issues in West Africa in 2022, including heated political campaigns and armed groups gaining ground.
Cape Verde’s recycling initiatives face off against global trash
The powerful Canary Current ferries trash from across the world to the island beaches of the West African country.
Cape Verde: Journalists united in pushback against investigations
Press freedom violations are so rare in Cape Verde that an investigation of three reporters has sparked national debate.
![Members of the press union in Cape Verde hold placards supporting three of their own who are under investigation, during a protest on February 4, 2022, in Praia, the country's capital [Credit: Associaçao dos Journalistas de Cabo Verde]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/b710ed8e-44f6-48dd-8943-f84e2ba5f5e1.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Opposition candidate Neves wins Cape Verde election
Josia Maria Neves, a former prime minister, wins the presidency in the first round as his main rival concedes defeat.
![Jose Maria Neves will inherit responsibility for stabilising Cape Verde's tourism-driven economy after the COVID-19 pandemic drove it deep into recession [File: Rafael Marchante/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-10-18T082033Z_560467638_RC28CQ9E8L71_RTRMADP_3_CAPEVERDE-ELECTION.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
What you need to know about Cape Verde’s presidential election
Record seven candidates running, with two ex-PMs – Carlos Veiga and José Maria Neves – seen as the strongest contenders.
![A Cape Verdean voter drops a ballot in a voting box at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Praia on April 18, 2021 [File: Seyllou/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/000_98A7YF.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Children’s clothes hang to dry at the foot of the volcano. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
The last eruption seven years ago destroyed hundreds of structures, but in others, including Ramiro Montrond’s bar, the lava poured through windows and doors, and then stopped. Residents chipped away as much lava as they could, but many have built around it. Montrond incorporated the lava, which broke through his front door, into his terrace. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
The crater from one eruption casts a shadow onto the volcano. The village is covered in rivers of lava, hardened over time into varying shades of black. Locals can distinguish which layer belongs to which eruption. The lava from the last eruption is still warm. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Djennifer Barbosa waters plants on her terrace, which is partially engulfed by hardened lava, while her daughter Thelma looks on. The lava spilled inside the home, too. Living there after the eruption has not been easy, she said. 'At first, it felt like I had a shadow in my heart,' she said. 'But I had no other option. Day by day it became normal.' [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Chindu Mendes and Djeisson Montrond harvest grapes on the steep slopes of one of Cha's old craters. Some grapes are exported to neighbouring islands while others are turned into wine. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Djeisson Montrond carries a load of freshly picked grapes down the crater. He makes a living exporting the grapes to Cape Verde’s main island of Santiago and by working as a tour guide. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Villagers harvest grapes beneath one of the old craters. The local population makes use of nearly every square metre inside the crater to grow crops. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Djeisson Montrond peers through his bedroom window, which is obstructed by a block of lava. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
A home that was overtaken by lava now sits abandoned. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Mario Silva Montrond, a grape and goat farmer, cooks in his brother’s kitchen, which features a giant wall of lava. His home was destroyed in the last eruption and he has lived in his brother’s house ever since. He is not worried about another eruption, he said, because he will just leave and come back when it is safe. 'There’s no life outside Cha for us Cha people,' he said. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
What is left of a truck sits in the village of Cha das Caldeiras, which is still covered in rubble from the 2014 eruption. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Roads have been rebuilt since the last eruption in 2014, but much work remains to be done, such as reconstructing the primary school. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
Construction workers dig through hardened lava to build a water pipe for their village. [Annika Hammerschlag/Global News Insight]
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The story of morna: Cape Verde’s music of displacement and return
How music shaped by slavery, epidemics and migration travelled the world, narrating stories of suffering and resistance.
![A violinist known as Nhô Raul performs with other morna musicians in the Cape Verdean Island of Brava [Courtesy of Cape Verde's Cultural heritage institute]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Festa-Tradicional-Nova-Sintra-Brava.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Cape Verde ruling party maintains grip on power
Movement for Democracy party is expected to hand Ulisses Correia e Silva a second five-year term as PM.
![Prime Minister of Cape Verde Ulisses Correia e Silva interacts with vendors at the Plateau market in Praia, after his victory in the 2021 parliamentary elections [Seyllou/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_98B97N.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Cape Verde holds parliamentary vote amid major recession
Neither of the two main parties is predicted to emerge the outright winner of election dominated by the pandemic.
![The election campaign was dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on a tourism-dependent economy [Seyllou/AFP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_98A2KD.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
