Tag: cuba
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Nigeria signs agreement with Cuba on vaccine production, biopharmaceutical products
Nigeria has signed an agreement with Cuba to implement actions on contract manufacturing, technology transfer, vaccine production and commercialisation of the Cuban biopharmaceutical products in Nigeria. Nigeria’s Ambassador to Cuba, Benaoyagha Okoyen, in a statement made available to newsmen in New York, said the two countries also agreed to partner in other areas.
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Africans in conversation with their Cuban brothers and sisters, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa AFRICAN leaders including former Presidents Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique, Sam Nujoma of Namibia, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde, and Cuban solidarity movements in 23 African countries were last Thursday, October 7, 2021 engaged in conversations with Cubans on their collective past and future. It was not the usual intercontinental summit of states…
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America’s sorry for Cuba, but won’t get off its neck, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa CUBA is choking. It is being suffocated by the natural corona virus whose vicious Delta variant is sweeping like a flu through the pearl, but whose artificial American variant is deadlier. Six weeks ago, Cuba had no fear of the COVID-19 pandemic. With six decades of suffocating American blockade, it…
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Cuba’s Abdala COVID-19 vaccine 92.28 percent effective
Cuba said on Monday its three-shot homemade Abdala vaccine against COVID-19 had proved 92.28 percent effective in last-stage clinical trials. The announcement came just days after the government said another homegrown vaccine, Soberana II, had proved 62% effective, with two of its three doses. Cuba, whose biotech sector has exported vaccines for decades, has five…
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Military helicopter crashes, all passengers on board dead
A Cuban military helicopter crashed in eastern Cuba on Friday, killing all five people on board, the Cuban military said. The helicopter crashed against a hill after leaving eastern Holguin province for the neighboring Guantanamo province, the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces said in a brief statement, cited by state media. The ministry has launched an…
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U.S. puts Cuba back on list of State Sponsors of Terrorism
The outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has put Cuba back on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism. The move reverses an Obama-era decision, and makes it harder for President-elect Joe Biden to fulfill his promise of reviving diplomatic ties with the socialist state, according to reports. Announcing the designation on Monday, U.S.…
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Havana lifts quarantine as Cuba recovers from pandemic
The Cuban Government said that quarantine measures in the capital Cuba would be lifted and the rest of the country would move the second phase of reopening as the coronavirus outbreak wanes. Phase one of reopening will see public transport, services and trade gradually resuming, Prime Minister Manuel Marrero said in televised comments. Citizens will…
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When an antelope prised itself from a lion’s mouth – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa. The Presidents of the United States (US) in most cases, tend to see themselves as lions at liberty to devour leaders of smaller or weaker countries who they treat as antelopes. That mentality was jolted 59 years ago when a supposed antelope in the mouth of a lion not only fought to…
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Covid-19: A New Humanity, A New World – Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa Imagine you are in a cruise ship with 681 others and then discover that some of them have contacted a highly infectious virus that has neither cure nor vaccine. Even, if there were a cure, it was not within reach as you are afloat in the ocean and no country wanted you…