The official statement issued by the Pan African Congress Kenya Chapter on August 14th, 2026 reads:
“For more than sixty years, the Republic of Cuba has endured a unilateral economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America — a measure repeatedly and overwhelmingly condemned by the United Nations General Assembly, most recently in 2025, and again subject to renewed international concern following the imposition of further sanctions reported by the United Nations to be deepening humanitarian hardship on the Cuban people in 2026.
This blockade restricts medicine. It restricts fuel. It restricts the basic instruments of national development. It is, in substance and in effect, the collective punishment of an entire people for the exercise of sovereign self-determination.
The Pan African Congress therefore calls formally upon the African Union, upon all Member States, upon every Ministry of Foreign Affairs and every Office of the Head of State represented or informed by this address, to:
1. Reaffirm, in the clearest diplomatic and legislative terms, the demand for the immediate
and unconditional termination of the United States blockade against Cuba;
2. Support Cuba's removal from any unilateral list designating it a state sponsor of
terrorism, a designation the Pan African Congress holds to be without just cause.”