http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/country/cape_verde.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.macauhub.com.mo/en/news.php?ID=1740 http://tobacco.org/news/229078.html 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). Macau Hub macauhub@macauhub.com.mo Cape Verde Thu, 27 Jul 2006 04:00:00 GMT http://news.24.com/News24/Africa/Features/0,1113,2-11-37_935343,00.html http://tobacco.org/news/52866.html 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] News24 Cape Verde Fri, 03 Nov 2000 05:00:00 GMT