Cooperation relations with Cuba began before Namibia reached its indepdence and both nations now enjoy strong relationship, said Namibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba during a tour, Sunday, of Havana's National Zoo, accompanied by Cuba's First Vice-president Miguel Diaz Canel.

Niger's President Issoufou Mahamadou arrived Sunday on an official visit to Cuba aimed at strengthening bilateral relations, which are particularly developing in the areas of health, sports and education.

Cuban President Raul Castro sent a message of congratulations to participants at the 25th International Congress on Orthopedics and Traumatology, which winds up Saturday in the central city of Trinidad.

Cuba will punish officials with the Biological Laboratories Entrepreneurial Group Labiofam after they launched two perfumes in presumed homage to Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter Ernesto Che Guevara and Bolivarian leader Hugo Chavez.

The presidents of Namibia and Equatorial Guinea, Hifikepunye Pohamba and Obiang Nguema Mbasogo are paying official visits to Cuba on Saturday, Granma newspaper announced.

Cuba's vice-president Salvador Valdes Mesa met on Friday in Havana with Simon Khaya Moyo, president of the African National Union of Zimbabwe, the ruling party in that African country.

Salvador Valdes Mesa, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party (CC of the PCC) and Vice-president of the Council of State, received Simon Khaya Moyo, President of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), the party of the government of that African nation.

The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, highlighted in a letter sent to President Nicolás Maduro, the bravery shown by the Venezuelan head of state in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly, in which he called for the re-founding of the UN.

The Business Group of Biotechnological Laboratories (LABIOFAM) renewed cooperation agreements with African nations for the control of vector-transmitted diseases, as informed at the 3rd International Congress of that entity in Havana.

The head of the Institutional Communication Group of Cubana de Aviacion S.A., Walfredo Riveron, told the ACN news agency in Thursday that the island's flag airline will reintroduce direct flights between Cuba and Costa Rica on November 16.

Cuba's Biological Laboratories enterprise Labiofam and Ghana signed a letter of intention on Wednesday to keep bilateral actions towards the control of Malaria in the African nation.

Novel treatments, replacement of joints and traumas in sports are, among others, the topics debated as of Tuesday at the International Congress on Orthopedics under way in the city of Trinidad, in this province.

The Office of the Historian of Havana is leading the refurbishing of the Capitol building to have the country's Parliament return to his original host, which was inaugurated in 1929.

The member of the Politburo and Vice-president of the Council of State, Mercedes Lopez Acea, was received by Choummaly Sayasone, President of the Republic and general secretary of the Popular Revolutionary Party of Laos, who reiterated his support for the struggle of the Cuban people against the blockade and for the release of the Five Heroes, during the fraternal meeting they recently held on the occasion of Lopez Acea's working visit to Vientiane.

Bolivia's Deputy Health Minister Arianna Campero thanked in this capital the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro, and Army General Raul Castro, President of the councils of State and Ministers, for being a bastion of dignity and honor for the peoples.