For a remote and dry island nation with practically no natural resources, Cape Verde can consider itself fortunate. Long sustained by private remittances and public aid – in recent years the highest foreign aid per capita in Africa – it has managed to distance itself from the worst afflictions of the continent.
The islands are now at a significant turning point, about to graduate next year from the United Nations’ list of least developed countries (LDCs) and preparing to enter an upgraded partnership arrangement with the European Union.
