Norwegian Social Work students do work training in Havana
Oslo, Februaryt 27, 2025. In a note published on its Facebook account, the Sociology Department of the University of Havana reported that for the third consecutive year it has received Social Work students from the Norwegian University of Stavanger (UiS).
For 5 months, those students are doing work training at the Convent of Bethlehem and the Integral Transformation Workshop in the Jesús María neighborhood, in the capital´s municipality of Old Havana.
Activities with children and elderly of the neighborhood contribute to their training.
Member of the Norway-Cuba Friendship Association visits the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP)
Oslo, February 26, 2025. Lars Øvergaard, member of the Norway-Cuba Friendship Association, who is currently making a research stay at the “Enrique José Varona” University of Pedagogical Sciences, visited the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), where he was received by Rigoberto Zarza Ross, director of the Division for Europe, and Elizabeth Ribalta Rubiera, desk officer of the Northern Europe Group.
ICAP´s President sends a letter of thanks to the Association of Friendship with Cuba in Norway
Oslo, February 26, 2025. Fernando González Llort, President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), sent a letter to the Norway-Cuba Friendship Association thanking the shows of affection and support for Cuba in the wake of the hurricanes and earthquakes that hit the Island in October and November 2024.
The cooperation between the National Union of Communications, Computing and Electronics Workers of Cuba and the Postal and Finance Union of Norway moves forward.
Oslo, February 18, 2025. Within the framework of the existing relations of friendship and cooperation between the National Union of Communications, Computing and Electronics Workers of Cuba (SNTCIE) and the Postal and Finance Union of Norway, a delegation of this Norwegian trade union, headed by Cathrine Sæther Ertsås, its vice president, is in Havana these days.
African Union demands the lifting of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and its removal from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism
Addis Ababa, February 16, 2025 - For the sixteenth consecutive occasion, the 38th Assembly of the African Union, made up of the African Heads of State and Government, approved a resolution rejecting the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by the government of the United States against Cuba, a cruel policy that has scourged the Cuban people for more than six decades.
The adopted text contemplates, for the second time, the African organization's request to remove the Caribbean nation from the arbitrary unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.