Tackling unemployment and poverty will be the key priorities of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde, which was voted back into power this month, 10 years after losing the country’s first multiparty polls, Portuguese radio reported on Tuesday.
“At the moment virtually half of Cape Verdeans are poor - they live under very difficult conditions, without water and electricity, but above all they live in very precarious housing,” Jose Maria Neves leader of the party better known by its Portuguese acronym, PAICV, told the radio.
“So we will work to create new jobs, fight poverty and create the conditions so that Cape Verdeans can live with more dignity,” he added.
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