2016 in Cape Verde

Mindelo is a large city in Cape Verde.

← 2015 2014 2013 2016 in Cape Verde → 2017 2018 2019
Decades:	1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2016 Timeline of Cabo Verdean history

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Cape Verde.

Incumbents

• President: Jorge Carlos Fonseca
• Prime Minister: José Maria Neves (until 22 June), José Ulisses Correia e Silva (from 22 June)

Events

• January 20: Tarrafal camp museum in Santiago Island opened by Prime Minister José Maria Neves and the Portuguese Premier António Costa[1]
• March 20: the 2016 parliamentary election took place
• April 20: Jorge Pedro Mauricio dos Santos president of the National Assembly
• April 22: Ulisses Correia e Silva Prime Minister of Cape Verde
• June 22: The current Correia e Silva cabinet begins
• September: The Prime Minister and members of his government met with the IMF to discuss the 2016 Article IV consultation.
• September 4: the 2016 municipal elections took place
• October 2: the 2016 presidential elections took place, President Jorge Carlos Fonseca was re-elected

Sports

See also: 2015–16 in Cape Verdean football and 2016–17 in Cape Verdean football

• CS Mindelense won the Cape Verdean Football Championship[2]

Deaths

• September 16: António Mascarenhas Monteiro (b. 1944), politician and Prime Minister

References

1. Entry into Colónia Penal do Tarrafal / Museu do Tarrafal, at the website of the Portuguese SIPA - List of monuments, accessed 18 June 2017
2. "List of champions of Cape Verde". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 November 2018.