Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (Cape Verde)

The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Cape Verde (Portuguese: Chefe do Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas; CEMFA) is a major-general, who is the highest-ranked officer in the Cape Verdean Armed Forces.

Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces
Chefe do Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas (Portuguese)
Incumbent António Duarte Monteiro since June 2022
Abbreviation	CEMFA
Website	Official website

Chief of Staff

No.	Name (birth–death)	Term of office			Ref.
		Took office	Left office	Time in office
1	Brigadier Marino Dias (1952–2011)	March 1989	July 1991	2 years, 4 months	[1][2]
2	Brigadier Ederlindo Ribeiro	July 1991	February 1995	3 years, 7 months	[1]
3	Brigadier Amílcar Baptista	February 1995	October 1998	3 years, 8 months	[1]
4	Brigadier Jorge Bettencourt Pinto	October 1998	May 2001	2 years, 7 months	[1]
5	Brigadier Antero Matos	May 2001	March 2009	7 years, 10 months	[1]
6	Brigadier Fernando Pereira Carvalho	March 2009	18 August 2011	2 years, 5 months	[3]
–	Colonel Jorge Paulo Monte Acting	18 August 2011	30 December 2011	134 days	[3]
7	Major general Alberto Fernandes	30 December 2011	30 April 2016	4 years, 122 days	[4][5]
8	Major general Anildo Emanuel da Graça Morais (born 1962)	24 June 2016	3 June 2022	5 years, 344 days	[6]
9	Counter admiral António Duarte Monteiro (born 1965)	3 June 2022	Incumbent	3 years, 64 days	[7]