Sarah Rainsford
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 06:07
The head of Russia's Security Council has identified Islamic State (IS) as the greatest threat to world peace and security, and it seems the danger could be getting closer to home.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 07:42
It's a month since Cuba's government started permitting people to have email on their mobile phones but the queues to sign up for the service are still enormous
Monday, May 27, 2013 - 00:00
The deal calls for the economic and social development of rural areas and providing land to poor farmers
Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 00:00
In the midst of it all is a middle-class Dutch woman, who went to Colombia to teach English in the 1990s and ended up a fighter with the Farc
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 00:00
The top government negotiator earlier said that the army would continue fighting the Farc until it signed a peace deal
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 00:00
On Friday, the Red Cross made the first delivery direct to the population, taking cookery and hygiene packs to the picturesque, but now battered Cayo Granma, a few minutes ferry-ride from the mainland.
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 00:00
"[Without] a strong counter-drug stance, Cuba would be a prime area for drug smugglers, but its efforts are very effective," says Louis Orsini of the US coastguard.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 00:00
The US trade embargo with Cuba is 50 years old and Washington shows no sign of ending it. In Havana, the BBC's Sarah Rainsford asks how Cubans have learnt to adapt.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 00:00
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has received a warm welcome in Cuba, as he continued a whistlestop tour of his allies.