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A Nação

Cape Verdean general-interest weekly first published on 6 September 2007, online since 2010, registered with the regulator ARC as title no. 3/2016; its Desporto section covers several codes.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026
First print edition6 September 2007
Website launched2010, at anacao.cv
Regulator registrationTitle no. 3/2016 in the ARC register; semanário, generalista
DirectorAlexandre Semedo
Print sectionsMain news, Etc., business announcements (PPN) and classified advertising

What is A Nação?

A Nação is a Cape Verdean weekly newspaper published in print and online, describing itself as an independent title — "jornal independente" appears on its own masthead.[1] It appears in the register of printed press kept by the Autoridade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social under title number 3/2016, with periodicity recorded as semanário and nature as generalista, the same classification as the country's other registered general weekly.[2]

The paper's own history page records a first print edition on 6 September 2007 and the launch of the website anacao.cv in 2010, followed by mobile applications in 2014 and a subscriptions store in 2020.[1] Its print edition is organised into four parts: the main news section, a section titled Etc., a business announcements section and classified advertising.[1] Its director is Alexandre Semedo, named on the paper's own editions.[3] The paper covers politics, economy, culture, sport and opinion.[1]

What does A Nação cover?

Sport is a standing section on the paper's site, and its September 2026 file shows the range. On 9 September 2026 it carried the Cape Verdean goalkeeper known as Vozinha dedicating his nomination for the 2026 Ballon d'Or to "o povo cabo-verdiano"; on 31 August 2026 it reported Interclube da Praia taking both the men's and women's national volleyball titles.[4]

The pairing is typical of how a small-country general weekly handles sport: the international profile of a Cape Verdean footballer and a domestic national championship in a minority code are given comparable treatment, because both are national news in a country where the domestic competition and the diaspora career are part of the same story. Football leads, with volleyball, basketball and athletics carried as national championship and national team events.[4] The paper's sport coverage is reporting rather than record-keeping; no standing competition tables are maintained on the site.[4]

What are A Nação's reach and standing?

The paper states on its own history page that data from the national statistics institute and IMC for 2018 place it first in Cape Verde for newspaper notoriety in both print and online.[1] That is the paper's own account of a third-party study; the underlying study itself could not be retrieved, so the claim is reported as the paper's and not adopted, and the figure is in any case eight years old as of September 2026.

The independently verifiable element is the regulator's register, which records A Nação as title number 3/2016, a weekly of general nature — one of only two general-interest weeklies in that register, the other being Expresso das Ilhas at number 2/2016.[2] Alongside that, the paper has published continuously since 2007, maintained a website since 2010 and mobile applications since 2014, and numbers its print editions sequentially past 990.[1] [3] It is a registered national general weekly with a long unbroken run, in a country with very few of them.

Since when?

The paper's own history gives a first print edition on 6 September 2007 and sets out a sequence of later dates: the website from 2010, mobile applications and a Facebook presence from 2014, Twitter and Instagram accounts from 2018, and an online store for subscriptions from 2020.[1] The regulator's registration number, 3/2016, belongs to a register compiled in that year and is not a founding date.[2]

Editions published in December 2020 and July 2021 name Alexandre Semedo as director, so the directorship is datable to at least that period; whether he has held the post since the paper's foundation could not be confirmed from a primary source.[3] The paper was publishing a numbered weekly print edition and a daily-updated site with a Desporto section in September 2026, and was posting sports items through the first half of that month.[4] Its own history page treats the 2007 print launch and the 2010 website as separate events, which is the distinction to preserve when dating the paper's online archive rather than the title itself.[1]

Why does A Nação matter in Cape Verde's sport?

Cape Verde has two registered general weeklies, and A Nação is one of them.[2] Coverage in A Nação and coverage in Expresso das Ilhas is the whole of the country's registered general weekly press; the same register records a general monthly, Terra Nova, and a set of registered daily online titles.[2] The two weeklies together are the print half of a national record that otherwise runs through the public broadcaster and the news agency.

What its sports file adds is attention to the codes below football. The men's and women's national volleyball championships, basketball and athletics all appear as reported national events, which matters in a country whose sporting record is not confined to its footballers.[4] At the same time the paper follows Cape Verdean players abroad, so a diaspora career and a domestic title sit in the same section.[4] For a Cape Verdean athlete outside football, A Nação is among the few national outlets whose file is likely to contain a dated report of a domestic national title.[1] [4]

References

  1. A Nação — História do Jornal. Accessed September 2026.
  2. Autoridade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (ARC), Cabo Verde — Jornais impressos: Título, Número de Registo, Periodicidade, Natureza. Accessed September 2026.
  3. A Nação — print edition no. 692, December 2020 (director credit). Accessed September 2026.
  4. A Nação — front page and Desporto section. Accessed September 2026.