Portugal available for consequences Cape Verde to mitigate crisis
We are available. difficult”, said João Gomes Cravinho, who ends today, in Praia, a three-day visit to Cape Verde.
“It is a picture that the country has been profoundly affected by the pandemic [de covid-19], 25% of GDP in Cape Verde comes from tourism, and tourism dried up for a year and a half, two years. The war and Russian invasion of Ukraine have been causing enormous disturbances in the circuits of various products, particularly cereals, and therefore Cape Verde is very resistant. There is also no extension of international energy,” he added.
The Cape Verdean Government began in April to appeal the international appeal of the international war, estimating the public architect at 40 million euros of impact to contain the escalation of the war.
“disastrous scenario. It’s a really dramatic scenario, but everyone believes that it is the deputy minister-first corps of finance to solve it”, said the finance minister, the finance minister, when presenting to the diplomat in the country the situation, O Correia, when presenting to the diplomatic country for 2022, after the consequences of the war in Ukraine, namely the need for state intervention for energy prices and stabilization.
Cape Verde has no refining capacity and imports all the food they need, including the production of electricity, 80% of which they consume.
According to João Gomes Cravinho, who still has audiences with the President of the Republic, José Maria Neves, and with the Prime Minister, Ulisses Correia e Silva, Cape Verde will continue to count on the support of Portugal, one of the countries that it supports annually. Financially the Cape Verdean Budget.
“These are areas in which Cape Verde will surely be able to with the usual Portuguese support, we are now going to try to make it happen, see what we can count on in a way that Cape Verdeans can correspond to what is needed”, he added.
After starting his first visit as Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs to the archipelago through the islands of São Vicente and Santo Antão, João Gomes Cravinho visited the Portuguese School of Cape Verde in Praia today.
“It is an example and in many ways. Portugal and Cape Verde, and therefore, in that sense, it is paradigmatic,” he told journalists.
The Portuguese School of Cape Verde was inaugurated in 2017, in its first phase, followed by the second (up to the 10th academic year) two years later, with the project moving to the institution’s third phase in the next academic year.
“It’s a sense of immense achievement. There is a degree of paradigm that is also a school that is not here either. A school that literally a dozen years ago, in 2016, started with 22 students, today it has more than 900 and still hasn’t completely consolidated all levels of education. And, therefore, it shows that when Portugal and Cape Verde come together with a higher degree of, they can achieve extraordinary things”, added the head of Portuguese diplomacy.
The Portuguese School of Cape Verde started its activity in the 2016/2017 school year with 22 students and receives 883 students this school year, from preschool to 10th grade. In the next academic year, classes will be extended to the 11th year and the following year to the 12th, according to previous information from the institution’s management, Suzana Maximiano.
The Portuguese School of Cape Verde is supported by the Portuguese State Budget and without the scope of a bilateral cooperation agreement with Cape Verde, with 67 teachers and 47 employees.
In the three phases of the project, the Portuguese School of Cape Verde represents an investment of 2.3 million euros.