2016 in Cape Verde

Incumbents

• President: Jorge Carlos Fonseca
• Prime Minister: José Maria Neves, José Ulisses Correia e Silva

  Events

• January 20: Tarrafal camp museum in Santiago Island opened by Prime Minister José Maria Neves and the Portuguese Premier António Costa
• March 20: the 2016 parliamentary election took place
• April 20: Jorge Pedro Mauricio dos Santos president of the National Assembly
• April 22: Ulisses Correia e Silva Prime Minister of Cape Verde
• June 22: The current Correia e Silva cabinet begins
• September: The Prime Minister and members of his government met with the IMF to discuss the 2016 Article IV consultation.
• September 4: the 2016 municipal elections took place
• October 2: the 2016 presidential elections took place, President Jorge Carlos Fonseca was re-elected

  Sports

• CS Mindelense won the Cape Verdean Football Championship

  Deaths

• September 16: António Mascarenhas Monteiro, politician and Prime Minister