Cabo Verde: Background and U.S. Relations (CRS Report for Congress)
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| Release Date |
Revised Oct. 8, 2017 |
| Report Number |
R44756 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Nicolas Cook, Specialist in African Affairs |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
Cabo Verde, a small island nation of just over half a million people located off the west coast of
Africa, is of strategic significance to the United States because its geographic location has made
the country a transshipment point for Latin American cocaine bound for Europe and a key
refueling stop-over for trans-Atlantic air traffic between Africa and the United States.
The country is also a long-standing U.S. ally in Africa that the State Department has cited as a
model of democratic governance in the region since its transition from single party rule to a
multi-party political system in 1991. U.S. bilateral aid to Cabo Verde is limited, and centers on
military professionalization, counternarcotics efforts, and development projects supported by the
Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
