Cuba appreciates support in Canada to end blockade
Cuba appreciates support in Canada to end blockade
Ottawa, Apr 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuba this Monday thanked Cubans and Canadian friends for supporting to end the illegal and immoral US blockade against Cuba.
In a message on Twitter, Cuban Ambassador to Canada Josefina Vidal wrote that six cities joined the global caravan this weekend for the cessation of the cruel US measure. Thank you very much Cubans and Canadian friends for your solidarity, Vidal tweeted.
In Montreal, the participants in the protest demanded the end of the criminal blockade and expressed their support for the nomination of the doctors of the Henry Reeve Cuban Medical Brigade to the Nobel Peace Prize.
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A Hurrah to Liberia-Cuba Relations
A Hurrah to Liberia-Cuba Relations
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Liberia and Cuba established diplomatic relations on April 19, 1974. In 2003, Cuba amalgamated its diplomatic presence in West Africa and prioritized Liberia under the jurisdiction of its Mission near Accra. Since then, Cuba’s presence in Liberia has reignited the ties between both countries as manifested in Cuba’s recent medical outreach to Liberia.
By Prof. Augustine Konneh, Ph.D, Dean of Graduate School, AME University
For example, Cuba was one of the countries that helped to ease Liberia’s agony during the Ebola epidemic in 2014. When Liberia was in the throes of that humanitarian disaster, Cuba sent medical doctors to strengthen Liberia’s fragile medical capacity. This was a difficult time for the country because it seemed that all states were shutting their doors to it. In Cuba, we saw a friend indeed. Therefore, on the occasion of commemorating Cuba-Liberia diplomatic relations, we
Nobel Prize for Cuban doctors long overdue
By Shannon Ebrahim
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There are few people left in the world who don’t do things for money or personal gain, but for the joy of saving someone’s life and reaching those who need help the most. Ordinarily, such selflessness belongs to those in the realm of angels, but from experience I have seen such human beings working in our country.
They are in our far-flung rural areas, helping the poorest of our people for little financial gain. They live in our communities, learn our languages, work on the front lines with our Covid-positive patients, all the while leaving their young children more than 12 000km away, in order to be here for as long as South Africa needs them.