She had become becalmed somewhere around the Cape Verde Islands, and run low on stocks, food and water.
"My team and I dedicate this victory to the wonderful people of the Cape Verde Islands, " he told reporters.
Tropical Storm Florence strengthened a bit Saturday over the open Atlantic Ocean, its center about 515 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands as it headed toward the Leeward Islands.
Since the Black Stars beat the Cape Verde Islands to qualify for their first ever World Cup finals, there has been no shortage of people offering to 'help' the national team in all sorts of ways.
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Angola's Ismael Kurtz and his counterpart from the Cape Verde Islands, Alexandre Alhinho, are both seeking to bolster their squads ahead of next month's start of the African qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) Public television in the Cape Verde Islands says U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international drug trade.
"A key finding of our analysis was that the most highly threatened species tend to relatively cheap to save on account of their small range sizes, such as the Razo lark, which lives on the island of Razo in the Cape Verde islands, " said Mr McCarthy.
Meanwhile, the Russian navy has in recent days been engaged in what it has presented as a dramatic anti-piracy mission: apprehending, off the Cape Verde islands, eight people on board a Russian-owned cargo ship called the Arctic Sea, whose crew claimed to have been hijacked, at least briefly, in the Baltic in late July.
The tiny Cape Verde Islands come fourth and mighty South Africa fifth.
The 4, 300 mile route takes competitors through a number of diverse weather systems, including the trade winds off the Canaries and Cape Verde islands, and the doldrums over the equator.
In 2009 and 2010 it failed to find a single deserving candidate, and in 2011 it did so only by venturing offshore to award it to Pedro Pires, the outgoing president of the pinhead-size islands of Cape Verde.
The team now languishes at 108th, behind countries such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman, New Caledonia and Cape Verde islands.
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