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A bus carrying mostly secondary school students plunged about 30 metres into a ravine on the Campanas de Cima route on Fogo Island, Cape Verde, on 5 September 2026.
At least 25 people were killed and 14 injured, making it the deadliest road accident in the island nation's history.
President José Maria Pereira Neves called it a great catastrophe and the country declared two days of national mourning.
Cape Verde is a ten-island volcanic archipelago in the central Atlantic off north-west Africa, with a total area of about 4,033 sq km and its capital at Praia.
A Portuguese colony from the mid-15th century, it became independent in 1975 and graduated from the UN list of least developed countries in December 2007.
Cape Verde lies in the central Atlantic roughly 600 km off the coast of Senegal, the nearest point on the African mainland. Its ten volcanic islands form two arcs — Barlavento to the north and Sotavento to the south — with the older, flatter islands to the east and the younger, more mountainous ones to the west. Fogo, in the Sotavento group, is the most volcanically active.
The West African regional bloc, founded in 1975 by the Treaty of Lagos, of which Cape Verde is a member state
The continental organisation of African states, founded in 2002 as the successor to the Organisation of African Unity; Cape Verde is a member, and the AU became a permanent member of the G20 in 2023
GS Paper 1 > World geography: islands, volcanic landforms and their location. GS Paper 2 > International groupings
General Awareness > World geography, capitals and current affairs
The windward and leeward groups into which Cape Verde's ten volcanic islands are divided — the same Portuguese terms used for island groups elsewhere in the Atlantic.
An active volcano on Fogo Island rising to 2,829 metres, the highest point in Cape Verde.
The Portuguese-based creole spoken by most Cape Verdeans and one of the oldest such creoles; Portuguese remains the official language used in formal settings.