{"id":26430,"date":"2026-05-14T12:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/26430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:31:20","slug":"cape-verde-one-of-the-driest-countries-on-earth-heads-to-the-polls-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/26430\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Verde: One of the driest countries on Earth heads to the polls \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Cape Verde: One of the driest countries on Earth heads to the polls \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3D115EOr6K4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nCape Verde: One of the driest countries on Earth heads to the polls \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAs the crucial legislative elections in Cape Verde approach, a major challenge resurfaces: water. The archipelago is ranked among the 15 countries with the lowest rainfall in the world, which remains scarce and expensive. Report by Caitlin Kelly.<br \/>\n#CapeVerde #water #elections<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Verde: One of the driest countries on Earth heads to the polls \u2022 FRANCE 24 English As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,18707,28205,1180,935,22,23,20,21,11770,28206,7056,4014],"class_list":{"0":"post-26430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france24","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-cape-verde","10":"tag-dry","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-france-24","14":"tag-france-24-english","15":"tag-france24","16":"tag-france24-english","17":"tag-polls","18":"tag-rainfall","19":"tag-record","20":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116572953152041780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}