African coffee-producing countries push for intra-continental trade of coffee products

STORY: African coffee-producing countries push for intra-continental trade of coffee products DATELINE: Aug. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:02:05 LOCATION: Kampala CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the coffee summit 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SOLOMON RUTEGA, Secretary general of the Inter-African Coffee Organization 3. various of the coffee summit setup and coffee packing 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): EZRA SURUMA, Uganda's former finance minister, economist STORYLINE: Delegates from Africa's 25 coffee-producing countries are meeting in the Ugandan capital of Kampala with the aim of influencing the African Union to make coffee a priority crop so as to pull millions of people out of poverty. The meeting, dubbed the 2nd G-25 Heads of State Africa Coffee Summit, is convening from Aug. 7 to Aug. 10 under the theme "Transforming the African Coffee Sector through Value Addition," which is in line with the theme of the 2023 African Union agenda that focuses on accelerating the implementation of the African Continental Fr