Youth of PAICV

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Youth of PAICV
Chairperson	Edson Medina
Chairman	Edson Medina
Mother party	African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde
International affiliation	International Union of Socialist Youth, IUSY
Website	jpai.cv

Youth of PAICV (Portuguese:Juventude do PAICV, JPAI) is the youth organisation of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde.

[edit] History

The organisation was founded on September 12, 1974 as African Youth Amílcar Cabral (Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral) as the youth organisation for the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, which operated in both Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. When the Cape Verdean section of PAIGC formed it's own party organisation was renamed Youth of PAICV.

[edit] Organisation

JPAI is a full member of the International Union of Socialist Youth.