Cape Verdean Armed Forces
The Cape Verdean Armed Forces, Cabo Verdean Armed Forces or FACV are the military of Cape Verde. They include two branches, the National Guard and the Coast Guard.
Cape Verdean Marines
Military Police in Mindelo
Coast Guard patrol vessel Guardião (P511), in manoeuvres with a British frigate
Dornier 228 of the Cape Verdean Coast Guard
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about 4,033 square kilometres (1,557 sq mi). These islands lie between 600 and 850 kilometres west of Cap-Vert, the westernmost point of continental Africa. The Cape Verde islands form part of the Macaronesia ecoregion, along with the Azores, the Canary Islands, Madeira and the Savage Isles.
Insulae Capitis Viridis (1598), showing Cape Verde
A view of Monte Cara from Mindelo
Grain ship Garthpool, wrecked at Boavista, Cape Verde, in 1928
Cape Verdean President Jorge Carlos Fonseca and Lígia Fonseca meet with US President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama in 2014.