10 August, 2023, Kampala, Uganda: At the invitation of the Government of Uganda, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC), H.E Manssour Bin Mussallam, spoke at the 2nd G-25 Africa Coffee Summit —of the top 25 coffee-producing countries on the continent— held in Kampala, and called for collective action by countries in, and from the Global South to end unfair global trading and market practices in the coffee sector and other commodities, to ensure that resources from the Global South benefit their citizens.

Delivering his speech during the opening session on 8th August 2023, the Secretary-General emphasized that if coffee-producing countries are to achieve the endogenous development and shared prosperity to which they aspire, the majority of value addition in the global coffee industry and other sectors, has to occur in the countries of origin.