What is Inforpress?
Inforpress is Cabo Verde's national news agency, trading as Inforpress SA – Agência Cabo-verdiana de Notícias and publishing at inforpress.cv. Its own history page records that it was created in December 1984 by Decree-Law no. 136/84, that it began operating on 4 October 1988 with an editorial team of nine journalists, and that it was formerly known as Cabopress.[1] It is headquartered in Praia and states that it has a presence throughout the national territory.[1]
The agency publishes in Portuguese and English and organises its file into standing subject categories — politics, economy, society, culture, sport, environment, cooperation and international affairs — with sport treated as a distinct category rather than as an occasional subject.[1] An agency file works differently from a newspaper's: material is written to be reproduced, so an Inforpress sports report frequently becomes the wording that appears, with or without attribution, in several Cape Verdean outlets on the same day.
What does Inforpress cover?
Sport is one of the agency's permanent categories, and its sports file runs to the administrative and infrastructural side of Cape Verdean sport as well as to competition. A representative item, published on 25 September 2024, reported the Praia city council's plans for the remodelling of the Estádio da Várzea to meet FIFA requirements while preserving the historic part of the site, quoting the council president Francisco Carvalho on an accompanying independence museum.[2]
That is the agency's characteristic register: a named official, a dated decision, a facility or federation matter, filed in a form other outlets can reproduce. Competition coverage sits alongside it across the codes Cape Verde plays — football above all, with basketball, handball, volleyball and athletics.[1] [2] The English-language file matters for a small Portuguese-speaking country, because it is the route by which a Cape Verdean sporting decision reaches readers and outlets outside the lusophone world in the agency's own wording rather than in translation.[1]
What are Inforpress's reach and standing?
No audience or subscriber figure for Inforpress could be retrieved, and the agency publishes none. Its standing rests on status and structure: it is the national news agency, created by decree-law, operating from Praia with reporting across the national territory, and publishing a continuous file in two languages.[1]
For sport, the useful measure is the type of material it produces. Where a stadium reconstruction, a federation decision or a ministerial statement is the fact in question, the agency's dated report is often the earliest published account in the agency's own words, and it is the version other Cape Verdean outlets work from.[2] Cape Verde is a small media market and the agency is the piece of shared infrastructure within it, so an item carried in several Cape Verdean outlets on the same day may be several publications of one agency report rather than several independent accounts — a distinction worth checking before treating parallel coverage as corroboration.[1] [2]
Since when?
The agency's own history separates two dates that are often conflated. Inforpress was formally created in December 1984 by Decree-Law no. 136/84; it began operating on 4 October 1988, with nine journalists.[1] A claim that the agency has existed since 1984 describes the legal instrument; a claim that it has been filing copy since 1984 does not hold, because the file starts in October 1988.
The agency operated earlier under the name Cabopress and now trades as Inforpress SA, a designation indicating incorporation as a joint-stock company; the date of that transformation and the current shareholding could not be confirmed from a primary source and are not stated here.[1] The English-language service and the current category structure, including the standing sport category, were both in place in September 2026.[1] [2] The agency's file is dated item by item at individual addresses, so a report such as the September 2024 account of the Estádio da Várzea scheme remains citable at its own address two years after publication rather than being replaced by later coverage of the same project.[2]
Why does Inforpress matter in Cape Verde's sport?
In a country with a handful of national outlets, the agency is where a sporting fact first enters the record in a form built for reproduction. The Estádio da Várzea report is the model: a dated account naming the council president, the FIFA requirement driving the work and the heritage constraint on it, written so that any Cape Verdean outlet can run it.[2] For facility, federation and government decisions in Cape Verdean sport, Inforpress is usually the primary published source.
Its two-language file gives it a second function. Cape Verde's international sporting profile has grown through its national teams, and the agency's English service is the channel through which a Cape Verdean federation announcement is readable outside the Portuguese-speaking world without passing through a foreign outlet's summary.[1] The caution attached to that reach is the one all agency copy carries: several Cape Verdean outlets running the same story is not necessarily several independent confirmations of it.[1]
References
- Inforpress — History. Accessed September 2026.
- Inforpress — Remodelação do Estádio da Várzea vai respeitar regras da FIFA e preservar a parte histórica, 25 September 2024. Accessed September 2026.