The following lists events that happened during
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
in
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
.
Incumbents
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President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
*'' Præsident ...
:
Pedro Pires
Pedro de Verona Rodrigues Pires (; born 29 April 1934) is a Cape Verdean politician who served as Prime Minister of Cape Verde from 1975 to 1991, and later as president from 2001 to 2011.
Life and career
Pires was born in São Filipe, Fogo, Cap ...
*
Prime Minister
A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...
:
José Maria Neves
Events
*July 3:
Local elections
Local may refer to:
Geography and transportation
* Local (train), a train serving local traffic demand
* Local, Missouri, a community in the United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''Local'' (comics), a limited series comic book by Bria ...
took place in the municipalities
Arts and entertainment
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Germano Almeida
Germano Almeida (; born 31 July 1945) is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer.
Biography
Born on the Cape Verdean island Boa Vista, Almeida studied law at the University of Lisbon and currently practices in Mindelo. His novels have been translat ...
's book ''
O mar na Lajinha
''O mar na Lajinha'', also as ''No mar da Lajinha'' (Capeverdean Creole, ALUPEK: ''U mar na Lajinha'', ''Nu mar da Lajinha'') is a Capeverdean novel published in 2004 by Germano Almeida. The story is about a group of people meeting regularly for ...
'' published
Sports
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Sport Sal Rei Club
Sport Sal Rei Club (or as Sport Sal-Rei Clube) is a sports club whose football team has played in the Premier division and in the Boa Vista Island South Zone Division in Cape Verde. It is based in Sal Rei on the island of Boa Vista. Its curr ...
won the
Cape Verdean Football Championship
The Cape Verdean Football Championship or the Campeonato Caboverdiano de Futebol is a football competition that was created in 1976 in Cape Verde. A local championship was founded in 1953 before independence, when the islands were still part of ...
Deaths
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Ildo Lobo (b. 1953), singer
References
{{Year in Africa, 2004
Years of the 21st century in Cape Verde
2000s in Cape Verde
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...