Leader of the Cuba-Africa Friendship Association Visits Kenya

HAVANA, Cuba Feb 25 (acn) The Executive Secretary of the Cuba-Africa Friendship Association, Teresa Daisy Diaz, has begun a working program in Kenya.

Díaz, who is also an official with the Cuban Friendship Institute (ICAP), met with executives from the Association at the headquarters of the Cuban embassy in Nairobi, the capital, to discuss aspects of interest for this movement of solidarity.

She also gave a news conference for the mass media of that nation in East Africa, during which she focused on the historical bonds of solidarity between Cuba and Africa. In that continent, there are presently 159 Cuba Friendship Associations and over 74 Committees for the Release of the Cuban Five, unjustly incarcerated in the United States.

Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Rene Gonzalez, Fernando Gonzalez and Antonio Guerrero were arrested in 1998 in Miami, and then condemned to harsh sentences for monitoring the activities of Miami-based, anti-Cuban terrorist groups, and warning the Cuban people of their criminal actions.

Diaz also met with Kenyan Parliament member Shakila Abdalla, who visited Cuba recently as part of the delegation headed by Farah Maalim, vice-president of Kenya’s National Assembly.

Others activities in her engagement book in the African nation included contacts with civil and student organizations, visits to provincial branches of the Friendship Association, and a central meeting with members of the organization.

(Visita Kenya dirigente de Asociación de Amistad Cuba-África)