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Before 1975, Cape Verde was an overseas province of Portugal, having a small Portuguese military garrison. This included both Cabo Verdean and European Portuguese soldiers. At the same time, some Cabo Verdeans were serving in the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARP), the military organization of the PAIGC party that was fighting for the joint independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. The FARP became the national armed forces of Guinea-Bissau, when its independence was recognized by Portugal in 1974.

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  • Military of Cape Verde
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  • Before 1975, Cape Verde was an overseas province of Portugal, having a small Portuguese military garrison. This included both Cabo Verdean and European Portuguese soldiers. At the same time, some Cabo Verdeans were serving in the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARP), the military organization of the PAIGC party that was fighting for the joint independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. The FARP became the national armed forces of Guinea-Bissau, when its independence was recognized by Portugal in 1974.
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Branches
  • National Guard and Coast Guard https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cv.html
commander-in-chief
Active
  • 1200(xsd:integer)
Commander
  • Jorge Tolentino
Country
  • Cape Verde
Name
  • Cabo Verdean Armed Forces
conscription
  • 3.68172E7
foreign suppliers
native name
  • Forças Armadas Cabo Verdeanas
percent GDP
  • 0.7
Budget
  • 7180000.0
manpower age
  • 5.680368E8
abstract
  • Before 1975, Cape Verde was an overseas province of Portugal, having a small Portuguese military garrison. This included both Cabo Verdean and European Portuguese soldiers. At the same time, some Cabo Verdeans were serving in the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARP), the military organization of the PAIGC party that was fighting for the joint independence of Guinea and Cape Verde in the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence. The FARP became the national armed forces of Guinea-Bissau, when its independence was recognized by Portugal in 1974. The Armed Forces of Cape Verde were created when the independence of the country occurred in 1975, being also officially designated as the People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (Forças Armadas Revolucionárias do Povo) or FARP. The Cabo Verdean FARP were made of two independent branches, the Army (Exército) and the Coast Guard (Guarda Costeira). In the early 1990s, the designation "FARP" was dropped and the military of Cape Verde started to be designated as the Cabo Verdean Armed Forces (Forças Armadas Cabo Verdeanas) or FACV. In 2007, the FACV started a major reorganization, that included the transformation of the Army into the National Guard (Guarda Nacional). Together with the Cabo Verdean Police, the FACV carried away Operation Flying Launch (Operacão Lancha Voadora), a major successful operation to try to put an end to a drug trafficking group who smuggled cocaine from Colombia to the Netherlands and Germany and who used Cape Verde as a reorder point. The whole operation took more than three years, being a secret operation during the two first years, being finished in 2010. Although located in Africa, Cape Verde had always close relations with Europe. Because of this, several opinions defend that Cape Verde may enter the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the NATO. The most recent engagement of the FACV was the 2016 Cape Verde army mutiny that resulted in 11 deaths.
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