2009 in Cape Verde

The following lists events that happened during 2009 in Cape Verde.

← 2008 2007 2006 2009 in Cape Verde → 2010 2011 2012
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2009 Timeline of Cabo Verdean history

Incumbents

• President: Pedro Pires
• Prime Minister: José Maria Neves

Events

• June 10: Cidade Velha became a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• December 22: reconstruction of São Pedro Airport (now Cesária Évora Airport) finished, it became an international airport

Arts and entertainment

• May 25: Mayra Andrade's album Stória, stória... released
• October 26: Cesária Évora's album Nha Sentimento released

Sports

See also: 2008–09 in Cape Verdean football and 2009–10 in Cape Verdean football

• Sporting Clube da Praia won the Cape Verdean Football Championship^[1]

Deaths

• April 5: Lela Violão (b. 1929)^[2]
• September 9: Tuna Mascarenhas (b. 1944)
• September 28: Manuel de Novas (b. 1938), writer^[3]