Politburo member and First Vice-president of the councils of State and Ministers, Miguel Diaz-Canel, received Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), who is on a working visit to Cuba.

For the first time since March, 2014, the World Health Organization reported today the end of an entire week without cases of Ebola, the epidemic responsible for over 11,000 deaths in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Cuba and Chad expressed their willingness to strengthen their ties in the framework of the official visit here of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the African nation, Moussa Faki Mahamat, during which two cooperation agreements were signed.

Cuba is one of the "best students" of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said today its representative in Cuba Theodor Friedrich.

Every year hundreds of Cuban students graduate from the university-level computer engineering course.