Gambia
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Brave doctors who take lives from death in the Gambia
(*) By. MSC. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay Dr. Carlos Alberto Rosabal Ramírez has in his long professional life two missions in Africa, Angola (2011-2013) and the Republic of the Gambia from 2015 to the present. He graduated from General Practitioner in 1987, and Gynecologist in 1990, he also has a Diploma in Intensive Therapy and Continue reading
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Gambia urges U.S. to end embargo on Cuba
Sep 30, 2021, 12:01 PM | Article By: Pa Modou Cham Vice President Dr. Isatou Touray in her address at the United Nations General Assembly emphasised that The Gambia believes in friendly relations between states as the bedrock of international solidarity and cooperation. In this regard, VP Touray called on the United States to end the Continue reading
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Cuban Health heroes in the Gambia: Dr. Marubia, three missions saving lives in The Gambia
By. Msc. Maria Inés Alvarez Garay Dr. Marubia Rosales Sánchez is a Medicine graduate in 1990, a First and Second Degree specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine, and a Master in medical urgencies and emergencies. In 1999 she arrived in the Republic of the Gambia for the first time, then she returned in 2007 and now Continue reading
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Gambia called on Africa to intensify solidarity with Cuba
Banjul, Sept. 16.- The President of the Gambia-Cuba Friendship Association, Mr. Joseph Modou Peh Grant, called on the peoples and governments of Africa to intensify their solidarity with the Caribbean Island, at a time when the United States is raging. the prolonged and criminal blockade that has been imposed on it for 60 years, in Continue reading
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The Gambia and Cuba advocate for solidarity, friendship and peace
Banjul, Sept. 14th. The Gambian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Mamadou Tangara, and the Cuban Ambassador, H.E. Rubén G. Abelenda, agreed that solidarity, friendship and peace must prevail, more than ever, in these difficult pandemic that humanity lives. The Chancellor of this West African nation received in his office the diplomat of the largest of Continue reading
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CONVOCATION : African Continental Virtual Event of Solidarity with Cuba
Dear friends, The effects of the pandemic prevent the holding of the Seventh African Continental Meeting of Solidarity with Cuba, which was agreed to take place in the sisterRepublic of Mozambique from November 23 to 25, 2021. In the face of this situation, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples invites you to participate Continue reading
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Eternally grateful
By: Maria Ines Alvarez Garay The Cuban Medical Brigade in the Gambia is eternally grateful and very proud of the incredible work of our colleagues who provide health services and fight the pandemic in the Greater Antilles. Today the world is experiencing one of the most difficult health moments in the history of humanity, health Continue reading
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Pride for Cuba and The Gambia
By: MSc. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay «The most important thing will have to be their total consecration to the most noble and humane of the trades: saving lives and preserving health. More than doctors, they will be jealous guardians of the most precious of the human being; apostles and creators of a more humane world.» Continue reading
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New Cuban health professionals arrived in the Gambia
By Maria Inés Álvarez Garay (*) Banjul, June 20. – The resurgence of the blockade, the discrediting campaigns against the Cuban Medical Brigades (BMC), nor the continuous attacks by the United States against the largest of the Antilles do not matter. We Cubans continue with firm and gigantic steps by the course that our history Continue reading
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Gambian members of the parliament demand lifting of the US blockade of Cuba
Banjul, June 18th. – Members of the Gambia-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group today called on the United States to lift the blockade that it has imposed on the largest of the Antilles for six decades. The legislators of this West African nation expressed that the economic, commercial and financial siege of Washington prevents the Caribbean island Continue reading
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The Gambia acknowledges the work of Cuban doctors in Bansang region
By: MSc. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay (*) – The grateful accompany each other Bansang, The Gambia, June 6th. The Cuban Medical Brigade in the Gambia (CMB) posted in all regions throughout this West African nation, carries out a meritorious work, raising health indices, and improving the quality of life of the population. This weekend, in Continue reading
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Cuba, 58 years saving lives all along the world
By: MsC. María Inés Álvarez Garay (*) Since the triumph of their revolution, the Cuban people have maintained solidarity with numerous nations on the five continents, a legacy of the humanist thought of the National Hero, José Martí, the Heroic Guerrilla Ernesto Guevara, and the historical leader Fidel Castro. International Cuban medical aid officially began Continue reading
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Cuba State Council honored with a Friendship Medal to an outstanding Gambian friend
Banjul, May 18th. – The Council of State of the Republic of Cuba awarded the Medal of Friendship to the president of the Gambian Association of solidarity with the Caribbean nation, Joseph ModouPeh Grant, for his historical and unconditional support to the people of the island and its Revolution. This high decoration, awarded at the Continue reading
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A Cuban child conceived in the Gambia was born
By: MSc. Maria Inés Álvarez Garay (*) This May 5th, a beautiful child was born as a result of the love of two members of the Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) in Gambia, Doctors Manuel Yamil Baez, specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, and Glenis del Carmen Ramírez López, dentist. Both excellent young doctors worked, first, in Continue reading
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The sweetness of a look
By: MSc. Maria Ines Alvarez Garay (*) In the Gambia, one of the smallest countries in West Africa, we find Dr. Minerva Reina Perez, a pediatrician who works at the Farafenni hospital, one of the inland regions of this sister nation. She has dedicated several years of her life assisting Gambian children, they are countless Continue reading
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Unique and successful Health Caravan in the Gambia against the US blockade of Cuba
Banjul, Apr 25.- Gambian health professionals in solidarity with their colleagues from the Cuban Medical Brigade (BMC) staged in different regions of this West African nation a unique Caravan against the blockade imposed by the United States on the Caribbean island for 60 years. In the middle of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer and Continue reading
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Ambassador of Cuba in Gambia: Congratulations The Gambia on your historic football triumph
I join in the immense joy of the Gambian people for the great victory of their football team “Scorpions” against their similar “Palancas Negras” from Angola, which allowed them to qualify for the first time in history to the African Cup of Nations, to be celebrated next year in Cameroon. After more than 50 years Continue reading
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Homeland and Life in Africa
By: MSc. María Inés Álvarez Garay (*) «I am going to use a phrase, not definitive, because we must not renounce the idea of Homeland or Death, or the idea of Socialism or Death, and I am going to say as a young deputy said in the National Assembly: Homeland and Life !, Life for Continue reading
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From Cuba more messages of Congratulations to the Gambia for its Independence Day
Banjul. – The National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba (ANPP) and the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP) joined in the congratulations sent from the Caribbean island to Gambia for the 56th anniversary of its independence, celebrated this February 18th. On behalf of all the deputies, the president of the ANPP, Esteban Continue reading
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Congratulations Gambia on the Independence Day
Banjul, Feb 18.- On February 18th, 1965, The Gambia achieved its independence from the United Kingdom and on April 24th, 1970, it became a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. The Cuban Medical Brigade in the Gambia congratulates the Gambian people and its government for the Independence Day this February 18th, joining them in their Continue reading
"An Island on a Continent" 