Scarcity of water will affect many regions of the world by 2025, while in others authorities will declare water stress, which will lead to the displacement of millions of people demanding water for their survival, a Cuban expert warned in Havana.

Cuba´s first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel concludes a three-day official visit to Angola on Thursday after meeting with local government officials and will depart for Namibia, third and last leg of his African tour.

Liberian authorities acknowledged the work carried out by the Henry Reeve Cuban medical brigade that fought the Ebola Virus in that African nation, and which along with other forces, have helped Liberia advance towards its declaration as a country free of Ebola.

The countries with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA) asked the United States and President Barack Obama to repeal the executive order issued against Venezuela, since it constitute a threat to sovereignty.

Cuban President Raul Castro said that the arbitrary, aggressive and groundless executive order issued by US President Barack Obama against the government of Venezuela, which declared the South American country a threat to US national security, reveals that the United States is capable of sacrificing peace and the course of hemispheric relations in the interest of domination and its domestic policy.

ALBA is an alliance for peace, life and equal development, said in Caracas Nicolás Maduro, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Cuban President Raul Castro arrived in Caracas Tuesday morning to participate at an extraordinary Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas regional integration bloc, known as ALBA.

Cuba´s attorney general Dario Delgado is paying an official visit to China on the invitation of his counterpart Cao Jianming.

Cuba´s first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel arrived in Johannesburg on Monday to pay an official visit to South Africa, during which he will meet with top government officials.

The member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our Americas regional integration bloc (ALBA)will hold an extraordinary summit Tuesday in Caracas in support of Venezuela amidst US threats.

The Amazon and the Sahara desert seem to be opposed to each other when it comes to life: one "the lungs of our planet and the other the largest desert on Earth with inhospitable conditions for life. However, the Sahara desert is indispensable for the Amazon in order to fill its biosphere with oxygen and diversity. The arid desert maintains the Amazon humid.

Cuban government vice-president Ricardo Cabrisas is paying an official visit to Japan where he will meet with officials in the political and economic sectors.

Some 30 Cuban entrepreneurs from different economic sectors will attend Panama´s Expocomer Trade Fair March 11-15, which this year marks the 100th anniversary of the local Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, (CCIAP), the main Panamanian private organization of its kind founded on May 17, 1915.

Cuban first vice-president Miguel Diaz-Canel ratified his country´s determination to keep working for the further development of the PetroCaribe regional program, during the 9th Summit of that bloc, held Friday in Caracas.