Tropical Storm Fred forms off Africa's coast Sep 8, 2009
It s now affecting the southernmost Cape Verde islands. WWLTV. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Watch for lightning during the afternoon Sep 6, 2009
Van Dyke said the remnants of Tropical Storm Erika have dissipated, and while the National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical waves off the Cape Verde islands, both have low odds of developing into a storm. The biggest weather concern along the Space Coast is the chance of lightning both afternoons, he said. (Florida Today)
Hurricane Jimena Approaches Mexico's Baja as Warnings Issued for Resorts Sep 2, 2009
An area of low pressure between the Cape Verde Islands and the African Coast is given less than 30 percent chance of developing, according to the center. To contact the reporters on this story: in Boston at ; in Mexico City at. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
T.S. Danny expected to churn waves Aug 28, 2009
Meanwhile, officials at the National Hurricane Center are watching another system about 350 miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands that could become a tropical depression by Saturday. NEWS. (Daytona Beach News Journal -- Local)
New storm brewing? Aug 28, 2009
This afternoon, the new wave, showing signs of organization, was about 350 miles south-southwest of the Cape Verde islands and was moving west at 10 to 15 mph. Tags. (The Palm Beach Post)
Arctic Sea crew, suspected hijackers back in Moscow Aug 21, 2009
The Arctic Sea crew was debriefed by investigators after arriving on a military plane from the Cape Verde islands where they had been taken by the Russian navy which recaptured the ship. The eight men suspected of hijacking their ship also landed in Moscow on an identical Ilyushin-76, a heavy Russian military transport aircraft, less than an hour before. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Arctic Sea crew, hijack suspects board plane for Moscow Aug 20, 2009
The eight suspected hijackers, their hands cuffed behind their back and some of them shirtless, were taken under heavy escort to Sal, one of the Cape Verde islands, said journalists on the island. Later Wednesday they were put on the same Russian Ilyushin plane that was to fly the freed crew of the Arctic Sea home to Moscow. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Hijackers demanded $1.8m for stolen ship Aug 20, 2009
Russia detained eight suspected hijackers after a 25-day odyssey that ended in the Cape Verde islands off west Africa, the Defence Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, said. The eight hijackers are citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Russia, Mr Serdyukov told the President, Dmitry Medvedev, in comments on the Kremlin's website. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Missing ship found, hijackers arrested Aug 19, 2009
Tass news agency quoted Mr Serdyukov as saying the ship had been found at 1am Moscow time on Monday 483 kilometres off the Cape Verde islands. The crew have been moved to our anti-submarine warfare ship. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Russia finds missing cargo ship Aug 19, 2009
Russia says it has found a missing cargo vessel near the Cape Verde islands and retrieved its Russian crew ... TIMELINE: ARCTIC SEA 24 July: Crew say masked men board vessel, then leave 28 July: Ship contacts UK coastguard in English Channel 4 Aug: Ship fails to arrive in Algeria 17 Aug: Russia says ship found 300 miles off Cape Verde islands. (BBC News -- Europe)
* Russia announces the arrest of eight Arctic Sea pirates Aug 19, 2009
The ships disappearance in the Atlantic near the Cape Verde islands had baffled maritime authorities across Europe for two weeks. The hijackers included nationals from Russia, Estonia and Latvia, Serdyukov was quoted as telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a briefing. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Russia Finds Missing Merchant Ship Near Cape Verde Islands Aug 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009. Dec. 29, 2008: The cargo ship the Arctic Sea is seen here in Kotka, Finland. (Fox News)
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Forecasters Monitor Hurricane, Tropical Storm, Tropical Depression Aug 16, 2009
It formed in the eastern Atlantic about 740 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands and was moving toward the west Saturday at about 17 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds near 55 miles per hour. Its expected to become a tropical storm later Saturday or on Sunday. (KWTX.com, TX)
Tropical storm warning issued for parts of Fla. Aug 16, 2009
The depression is centered about 280 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Felicia is centered about 315 miles east of Honolulu with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
'Ransom demand' for missing ship Aug 16, 2009
A recent sighting off Africa's Cape Verde islands is still to be confirmed. There has been huge speculation over the reason for the ship's disappearance, ranging from pirates to a mafia dispute to a commercial quarrel. (BBC News -- Africa)
Tropical Storms Ana, Bill Form Aug 16, 2009
Tropical Storm Bill was located about 905 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands and was moving west near 16 mph. It also had wind speed of near 40 mph, with higher gusts. (News4Jax.com, FL)
Odds of Ana hitting hurricane status drop Aug 16, 2009
The remnant, about 930 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands, was moving west near 8 mph and was expected to continue a westward motion for the next few days ... It came off the African coast Wednesday as a vigorous wave and now sits about 250 miles south of the Cape Verde Islands about 3,500 miles from Florida ... 6 west, about 885 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands and some 3,000 miles from Florida. (The Palm Beach Post)
* Cape Verde ship sighting untrue, Moscow says Aug 16, 2009
Reports that a missing merchant ship had turned up in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde islands have proven untrue, Russias RIA agency quoted Moscows envoy to the country as saying on Friday. The disappearance of the Arctic Sea, and its 15-member Russian crew, has baffled authorities in Europe and North Africa. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
'Vanished' cargo ship spotted in Atlantic Aug 16, 2009
A Russian-crewed cargo ship that vanished two weeks ago has been spotted off the Cape Verde islands, after indications emerged it had been attacked twice. The spotting of the Arctic Sea came as Russian warships scoured the Atlantic Ocean in a search and intense speculation mounted over its fate, with the vessel having dropped off the radar in the English Channel on July 28. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Mystery remains over cargo vessel Aug 15, 2009
Mystery still surrounds a missing Russian-manned cargo ship, with a sighting off Africa's Cape Verde islands still to be confirmed. The Arctic Sea, with 15 Russian crew members on board, was last sighted in the Bay of Biscay on 30 July. (BBC News -- Africa)
Eye on the storm Aug 15, 2009
There s still a greater than 50 percent chance that big wave now about 200 miles south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the far eastern Atlantic will become a tropical depression or storm in the next 48 hours ... The remnant, about 930 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands, was moving west near 8 mph and was expected to continue a westward motion for the next few days ... It came off the African coast Wednesday as a vigorous wave and now sits about 250 miles south of the Cape... (The Palm Beach Post)
Tropics leak rain into state, county Aug 15, 2009
The fourth wave, about 200 miles southwest of the Cape Verde islands, continues to organize. The National Hurricane Center said there is a strong chance of the system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next two days. (Florida Today)
Guillermo Could Strengthen to Hurricane in Pacific Aug 14, 2009
The depression is centered about 885 miles (1,425 kilometers) west of Cape Verde Islands and moving west near 9 mph. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. (13WMAZ.com, GA)
Uh Oh, Ana! Tropical Depression Could Become First Named Storm Aug 13, 2009
Three other are lingering in the Atlantic, two off the coast of South America and another new system forming near the Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa, but none have more than a 30 percent chance of developing into something larger ... The gave the low-pressure system, which was just southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, a 30 percent to 50 percent chance of becoming Tropical Storm Ana two days ago. (ABC News)
Tropical Storm Guillermo forms in Pacific Aug 13, 2009
Meanwhile, forecasters say a tropical depression 800 miles west of Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic is struggling to survive. It has maximum winds of 35 mph. (MSNBC -- International)
Depression Over Eastern Atlantic May Become a Tropical Storm, Heads West Aug 13, 2009
The depression was located 535 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands, the center said. The system was heading west at 12 mph, and is forecast to accelerate. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Tropical depressions swirl in Atlantic, Pacific Aug 13, 2009
Its maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph and it's centered about 535 miles west of the southernmost Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast. The depression is moving west near 12 mph. (Concord Monitor)
New Tropical Depression Forms In Atlantic Aug 12, 2009
Tuesday morning, the center of Tropical Depression Two was about 350 miles west of the southwestern-most Cape Verde Islands. The depression was moving west at about 13 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of 30 miles per hour and could become a tropical storm within the next day of two, forecasters said. (KWTX.com, TX)
Tropical waves form in Atlantic Aug 11, 2009
The broad area of low pressure off the African coast, southwest of the Cape Verde islands, could develop into a storm in the next 48 hours or so. If it does, it will be the season's first in the Atlantic and will be called Ana. (Florida Today)
Crude Oil Falls for a Third Day as Gasoline Drops on Slowing Fuel Demand Aug 10, 2009
A low-pressure weather system south of the Cape Verde Islands in the eastern Atlantic may strengthen to a tropical storm as it moves west during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on its. Production may be shut down and tanker traffic delayed in the Gulf of Mexico if storms and hurricanes strike the region. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Ayittey Helps Prepare Clinton for Africa Trip Aug 6, 2009
Starting today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be visiting 7 African countries in 11 days: Cape Verde Islands, Liberia, Nigeria, Congo DR (Goma, in particular), Kenya, South Africa and Angola. Part of the purpose of the trip is to smooth over ruffled feathers. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Oil rebounds after unexpected inventory fall Aug 5, 2009
Energy traders also were watching an area of thunderstorms in the Atlantic Ocean several hundred miles southwest of the Cape Verde Islands associated with a tropical wave. The US National Hurricane Center said it had less than a 30 per cent chance of becoming a tropical storm. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Saharan Dust Storms Linked To Enigmatic Fertilizer Plankton In Ocean Jul 10, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 9, 2009) The tropical Atlantic waters around Cape Verde are very low in plant nutrients. Nitrogen is in especially short supply and limits the growth of the phytoplankton, the tiny plants that are at the basis of the food chain in the ocean. (Science Daily)
Obama Brings International State Terrorism to Ghana Jul 8, 2009
They planned to also murder the Pan Africanist and Revolutionary, Amilcar Cabral, of the African Independence Party of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC), Kwame Ture of the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party and leader of the Black Power Movement in the U.S., and his wife Miriam Makeba, Africas premier revolutionary songstresswho recently died, may her soul rest in peace. The U.S. shot down two Libyan jets on August 21, 1981, and bombed Tripoli and Benghazi on April 14,... (Ghana Web, Ghana)
By starlight, a two-hour hunt for a nesting turtle Jun 28, 2009
She will be long gone and doing laps around Bermuda, or the Azores, or the Cape Verde Islands, anywhere in the great circle of ocean currents that leads back here to the Caribbean. Chris Ladd can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
Football: Oliver Kahn launches reality TV show in China Jun 18, 2009
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Missing jet hit storms Jun 2, 2009
Brazil's military searched for it off its northeast coast, while the French military scoured the ocean near the Cape Verde Islands off the West African coast ... Air France told Brazilian authorities the last information they heard was that automated message, reporting a technical problem before the plane reached a monitoring station near the Cape Verde islands. (Albany Times Union)
Air France jet with 228 aboard missing Jun 2, 2009
Brazil's military searched for it off its northeast coast, while the French military scoured the ocean near the Cape Verde Islands off the West African coast. If all 228 were killed, it would be the world's deadliest commercial airline disaster since 2001. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Real spring green - Vegetables pack in vitamins and variety of fresh flavors May 22, 2009
We can thank the Portuguese fishermen from the Cape Verde Islands and the Azores who settled on our eastern shores for the basic idea of the recipe. I don t believe there is a definitive formula for this classic because I ve not found two identical recipes. (Missoulian, MT)
New Gene Associated With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Identified Mar 4, 2009
The current findings began with the MGH team s analysis of a family from the Cape Verde islands in which four individuals developed a form of ALS primarily affecting their arms and legs but not their respiratory system. The patients maternal grandparents were first cousins, and the fact that many Cape Verde residents in small communities are closely related to each other increased the possibility that the disorder was caused by a recessive mutation inherited from both parents. (Science Daily)
British Couple Saved After 40 Days Stranded At Sea Feb 24, 2009
The drama began on Jan. 9, six days after the couple left the Cape Verde Islands off the West Coast of Africa on board their yacht Sara. They were headed for Antigua where they intended to anchor until April. (Fox News)
Pair rescued in Bermuda Triangle Feb 24, 2009
The couple had set off from the Cape Verde Islands and were 1,200 miles from their destination in Antigua. Mr Armstrong said: "This has not put us off, we are looking to sail again.". (BBC News)
Record Atlantic swim raises more questions Feb 13, 2009
See it when it first broadcast: 56-year-old Colorado native, Jennifer Figge, has become the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean making her way from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad in a shark-proof cage ... Common sense dictates that Jennifer Figge, a 56-year-old endurance athlete, can't claim to have swum from the Cape Verde Islands to the Caribbean island of Trinidad, a journey of about 2,500 miles, in 24 days. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Infotainment Feb 10, 2009
Jennifer Figge took 24 days to swim from the Cape Verde islands off Africa to Trinidad. Figge, who had originally planned to make landfall in the Bahamas, now plans to finish by swimming from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
One More Leg For Trans-Atlantic Swimmer Feb 10, 2009
The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds. David Higdon, a friend of Figge who kept in touch with her via satellite phone, said she had originally planned to swim the Bahamas, but inclement weather forced her to veer 1,000 miles off course to Trinidad, where she arrived on Feb. 5. (CBS News -- US)
Hungarian troops on Cape Verde Islands for NATO drill Feb 8, 2009
BUDAPEST, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Forty-two Hungarian soldiers had arrived on the Cape Verde Islands in West Africa, to take part in the NATO Response Force military exercises along with 7,000 soldiers from other NATO countries, local media reported on Tuesday ... The Cape Verde Islands maneuver would be a test for the effectiveness of the force and the result would be announced at the NATO summit in Riga, Latvia at the end of November this year. (Xinhuanet, China -- World)
Endurance addict's ocean odyssey from Africa to Trinidad Feb 8, 2009
Instead, the crew departed Jan. 12 from the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast. Erratic conditions caused Ms. Figge's time in the water to be equally unpredictable her swims, fuelled by baked potatoes and cold pasta, ranged from 8 hours at a time to 21 minutes. (Globe and Mail)
56-year-old first woman to swim Atlantic Feb 7, 2009
resident is the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean, after leaving the Cape Verde Islands off Africa on Jan. 12, swimming roughly 2,100 miles ... The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africas western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds. (MSNBC -- Sports)
American woman becomes first on record to complete Atlantic swim Feb 7, 2009
Jennifer Figge took 24 days to swim from the Cape Verde islands off Africa to Trinidad ... The swimmer finally moved nearer her goal when she left Cape Verde Islands on 12 January, facing waves of up to 9m (30 ft). (BBC News -- Americas)
