| Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| Chefe do Estado-Maior-General das Forças Armadas (Portuguese) | |
.jpg) Incumbent since June 2022António Duarte Monteiro | |
| Abbreviation | CEMFA |
| Website | Official website |
TheChief 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 theCape Verdean Armed Forces.
| 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, 178 days | [7] |