Raul Castro

For the first time since 1976, Cuba’s president is not a Castro

When the leaders of North and South Korea reached across the Military Demarcation Line to shake hands, they symbolically united the peninsula

Miguel Díaz-Canel, a Communist Party loyalist, is expected to succeed Raúl Castro as president of Cuba, but will this change bring prosperity?

President Zuma attended the funeral of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, where he delivered a graceful tribute.

"I have never been afraid of death," Castro said in 2002. "I have never been concerned about death."

United States President Barack Obama makes a rare visit to Cuba this week. This after his December 2014 announcement of renewed relations with Cuba.

Cuba’s foreign minister takes the hugely symbolic step of raising his country’s flag at a newly designated embassy in Washington.

In the first round of historic talks between the two countries, the US vowed to continue giving Cubans safe haven, despite Cuba’s objections.

It was a small gesture: a handshake between Barack Obama and Raul Castro. It’s just what Nelson Mandela would have wanted, but does it amount to more?

US President Barack Obama has shaken hands with Cuba’s Raul Castro, a rare gesture between the two ideologically opposed nations.

The 1950s Cuban revolution led to an egalitarian society with many admirable features.

President Raul Castro has announced his intentions to release about 3 000 prisoners for ‘humanitarian reasons’ and reform onerous travel laws.

Cuba’s General Leopoldo Cintra Frias, a hero of military campaigns in Angola and Ethiopia, has been named as the country’s new defence minister.

Raul Castro has proposed term limits for Cuba’s rulers, including himself, in an unprecedented effort to rejuvenate the island’s political leadership.

Hopes of a major shake-up at a landmark Communist Party congress in Cuba have been dashed as the old guard kept a vice-like grip on power.