Amilcar Lopes Cabral

Last year was the army was celebrating 60 years of operations on that day last year; as well as independence from Portugal and the centenary of anti-colonial leader and founding president Amilcar Cabral...

The 16-month legal saga surrounding Alex Nain Saab Morán – accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for Venezuela's government – came to an end on 16 October when he was escorted onto a United States Department of Justice plane at Amilcar Cabral airport in Sal Cabo Verde...

In a speech delivered in Cuba in 1966 the father of Guinea-Bissau's and Cape Verde's independence movement Amilcar Cabral offered delegates an African saying: 'When your house is burning it's no use beating the tom-toms...

He ended up by insinuating there was a parallel between his actions and the spirit of ‘intrigues’ in the PAICV’s parent party the Partido Africano para a Independência de Guiné e Cabo Verde which led to the death of the legendary revolutionary and PAIGC founder Amilcar Cabral...

Photographs in the conference centre showed some liberation stars who passed through Algiers in the 1960s and 1970s for military training: Nelson Mandela (pictured with Lieutenant now General Mohamed Lamari) Amilcar Cabral Agostinho Neto Sam Nujoma Robert Mugabe...

This crisis in the military dates back to the anti-colonial war and to factional fights in the PAIGC and the assassination of the movement's charismatic leader Amilcar Cabral in 1973 by PAIGC dissidents...