2016 in Cape Verde

Decades:	1990s; 2000s; 2010s; 2020s; ;
See also:	Other events of 2016; Timeline of Cabo Verdean history

The following lists events that happened during 2016 in Cape Verde.

Incumbents

January 20: Tarrafal camp museum in Santiago Island opened by Prime Minister José Maria Neves and the Portuguese Premier António Costa^[1]
March 20: the 2016 parliamentary election took place
April 20: Jorge Pedro Mauricio dos Santos president of the National Assembly
April 22: Ulisses Correia e Silva Prime Minister of Cape Verde
June 22: The current Correia e Silva cabinet begins
September: The Prime Minister and members of his government met with the IMF to discuss the 2016 Article IV consultation.
September 4: the 2016 municipal elections took place
October 2: the 2016 presidential elections took place, President Jorge Carlos Fonseca was re-elected

September 16: António Mascarenhas Monteiro (b. 1944), politician and Prime Minister

^ Entry into Colónia Penal do Tarrafal / Museu do Tarrafal, at the website of the Portuguese SIPA - List of monuments, accessed 18 June 2017
^ "List of champions of Cape Verde". RSSSF. Retrieved 12 November 2018.