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Sales at Cape Verde tobacco company rise 23 percent in first half of 2006 

Sales at cape Verdean tobacco company, Sociedade Cabo-Verdiana de Tabacos (SCT), a recently privatized company, rose 23 percent year on year in the first half of 2006, the company said.

According to a filing with the Cape Verde stock exchange, in the first six months of the year the company posted turnover of 361.7 million Cape Verdean escudos (US$4.14 million).

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'Barefoot Diva' with an African soul 

Mindelo, Cape Verde Islands - In an unremarkable terraced house on a cobbled street in a small town on a speck of an island off the west coast of Africa lives a grandmother who has sold more than 3 million music albums.

She is known on five continents as the “Barefoot Diva”, who sings at sell-out concerts without shoes.

Despite her achievements, Cesaria Evora - whose spine-tingling interpretations of traditional Cape Verdean music have earned her four Grammy nominations and a long-running place on Billboard’s world music charts - does not stand out in a crowd, nor does she court fame. . . She also smokes strong cigarettes, constantly. [This graph only]

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