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Cuban President reiterates invitation to his Gambian counterpart to visit the island
Havana, Jan 12.- The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, reiterated a recent invitation to his Gambian counterpart, Adama Barrow, to visit the Caribbean island soon. On Wednesday receiving the credentials of Sheikh Tijan Hydara, the new ambassador of this West African nation in the largest of the Antilles, Díaz-Canel also reciprocated a greeting received from Continue reading
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Cuba will assume the Presidency of the G77+China at the UN
United Nations, Jan 11 (Agencies) Cuba will take possession, this Thursday, of the pro tempore Presidency of the G77+China, the largest and most diverse concerted group in the multilateral arena, with 134 member states, which represent two thirds of the members of the United Nations system and 80% of the world’s population. It is the Continue reading
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The Truth Behind the film ‘Cuba in Africa’
By Kester Kenn Klomegah (From Gambian newspaper The Voice) In this snapshot WhatsApp interview, Negash Abdurahman, producer of the the film ‘Cuba in Africa’ which won several prestigious international awards, narrates his experiences. Abdurahman is an Ethiopian-American filmmaker and an educational technology specialist. He is also the Founder of RI Systems Inc. His award-winning film Continue reading
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Lula’s government will resume the More Doctors program in Brazil with Cuban health professionals
Brasilia, Jan 5 (Prensa Latina) The Secretary of Primary Care of the Brazilian Ministry of Health, Nesio Fernandes, affirmed that the More Doctors program, extinct during the administration of the defeated president Jair Bolsonaro, will be resumed. «The agenda to resume More Doctors is immediate. We want to place doctors in all Brazilian municipalities in Continue reading
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Congratulations from the world to the Cuban Revolution for its 64th anniversary this January 1st
– From The Gambia they also congratulate Cuba on its National Day The Cuban Revolution once again received this January 1st the congratulations and recognition of millions of people around the world who continue to find in it an example of resistance. The expressions of affection and respect came through social networks, public events, demonstrations, Continue reading
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64 years of Revolution, of struggles and victories
Statement of the Cuban Medical Brigade in The Gambia on January 1st Sixty-four long years defending our conquests, resisting the cruel and ruthless blockade imposed by our neighbors to the north, putting our limitless creativity and our fertile intellect to overcome each crisis and each difficult period. Here we are with our feet in the Continue reading
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Yes, I Can, the Cuban method that literate millions?
Havana, Dec 27 (Prensa Latina) More than 10 million people in some thirty countries learned to read and write with the Cuban method, Yes, I can, which is now spreading to Honduras with the arrival of a group of pedagogical advisers. THE METHOD Conceived between 2001 and 2002 by the impulse of the historical leader Continue reading
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Gratitude and much affection in The Gambia towards the Cuban health professionals
Banjul, Dec 18th.- Moving words of praise received from the management of the Central Hospital of Banjul a group of members of the Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) who successfully concluded their mission in The Gambia. In an act chaired by Dr. Ammar Al Jafari, director of the main healthcare center of this West African nation, Continue reading
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ALBA-TCP Statement confirms commitment to regional unity
Havana, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The Heads of State and Government of ALBA-TCP ratified in Cuba their commitment to strengthening the regional mechanism, as an instrument of union between peoples, based on the principles of solidarity. In the final Declaration of the XXII Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Continue reading
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USA-Africa: A summit for collaboration or another recolonization?
By Patricio Montesinos Not a few are the doubts of analysts about the purposes and results of the summit between the US and the African heads of state that will be held from December 13th to 15th in Washington: Will it be for a genuine collaboration or a new colonization? Another of the unknowns of Continue reading
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Caribbean Summit calls to end the US embargo on Cuba
Bridgetown, Dec 7 (Prensa Latina) The VIII Caricom-Cuba Summit adopted this Tuesday the Bridgetown Declaration, which calls for an immediate end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo of the United States against that island, announced Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez. This was indicated by Rodríguez in his account on the social network Twitter, in Continue reading
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Emotional tribute to Fidel in The Gambia
Banjul.- Ten-line stanzas, poems and beautiful prose texts were dedicated this November 25 to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, in an emotional tribute activity for the VI anniversary of his physical disappearance, organized by the Medical Brigade of the Caribbean Island (BMC) in The Gambia. After listening to and singing the Continue reading
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Fidel in the hearts of the people
By Rubén G. Abelenda (*) In these sad days, as the sixth anniversary of the departure of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution approaches on November 25th, I heard an African friend say that he would have given more than 20 years of his life for Fidel Castro to be physically among us. These Continue reading
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President Díaz-Canel reaffirms will for dialogue between Cuba and the US
Havana, Nov 15 (PL)) Cuba has the will to, with all due respect and the ability to be on equal terms, to establish dialogues with the United States that bring both countries closer, President Miguel Díaz-Canel assured this Monday. After a tour of the exhibiting companies from the United States at the Havana International Fair Continue reading
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Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Cuba turns 23
– ELAM has graduated 30,636 students from 120 countries, including Africans and Americans. Havana. – The Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba (ELAM) celebrated this November 15, 23 years since it was founded by the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, who is considered a promoter of the training of human resources in this Continue reading
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The most important International Fair in Cuba FIhav-2022 have started
Havana, Nov 14.- (PL) More than 60 countries are represented at the 38th edition of the International Fair of Havana (Fihav 2022), the largest commercial and exhibitor event in Cuba, which began this Monday at the Expocuba fairgrounds . First-level delegations headed by ministers and high-ranking government officials, businessmen and other foreign actors from nations Continue reading
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Cuba Holds Developed Countries Responsible for Climate Change
– President of the African Union (AU) demands climate responsibility from rich countries «Developed countries are responsible for climate change,» said Elba Rosa Pérez Montoya, Cuban Minister of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, where the XXVII United Nations Conference on Climate Change is taking place. Climate (COP 27). «For this Continue reading
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Gambia congratulates Cuba for its new victory at the UN against the US embargo
Banjul, Nov. 5th.- The Gambia-Cuba Friendship Association congratulated the people and government of the Caribbean island for their new victory in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) against the embargo imposed by the United States for more than 60 years. In a message signed by the president of that solidarity organization, Joseph Modou Peh Grant, Continue reading
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Overwhelming support for Cuba at the UN against the embargo
United Nations, Nov 3 (Prensa Latina) Cuba scored a new victory this Thursday in its fight against the United States embargo, by achieving overwhelming support in the United Nations (UN) for a resolution approved by 185 votes in favor. The text was opposed by the United States and Israel, while Brazil and Ukraine abstained. The Continue reading
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CALL BY THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE OF CUBA’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLE’S POWER
The International Relations Committee of the National Assembly of the People’s Power of the Republic of Cuba calls on the lawmakers of the United States and the world at large to add their voices to the universal call that the UN General Assembly has been making for the last 30 years, for an end to Continue reading
"An Island on a Continent"
"The greatest crime that can be committed against this continent today is neocolonialism, the attempt to establish capitalism in the peoples of Africa." Fidel Castro
"An Island on a Continent" 