The Excessive Fee of the Republic of Uganda in Abuja proudly participated within the Africa Commerce Consortium’s 2025 Tea Break Édition occasion held below the theme: “Unlocking Africa’s Tea Trade Potential.” The occasion, organized by PR Occasions Africa, a Nigerian media consortium, was convened as a novel commerce expertise geared toward showcasing the immense potential of Africa’s tea trade and selling intra-African cooperation below the AfCFTA framework.
Uganda was represented on the high-level engagement by Ambassador Philip Odida, Chargé d’Affaires, and Dr. Sam Omara, Minister-Counsellor on the Excessive Fee. The occasion introduced collectively a broad spectrum of members, together with stakeholders from commerce, export, taxation, and funding coverage sectors, in addition to members of the diplomatic corps and representatives from Nigeria’s federal companies and the personal sector.
Ambassador Odida delivered a keynote presentation titled “Uganda’s Tea Trade: A Mannequin for Sustainable Development and Regional Commerce.” In his remarks, the Ambassador highlighted Uganda’s tea sector as one of many nation’s prime international alternate earners and a main instance of sustainable agricultural observe and regional commerce potential. He emphasised the significance of inter-African collaboration, calling for elevated partnerships, joint ventures, and data alternate to unlock the complete potential of the continent’s tea trade.
“We invite you, by the African Commerce Consortium 2025, to achieve out to expertise the distinctive flavors and qualities of our tea. We consider that partnerships and collaborations stay key to rising our trade and are subsequently, desirous to discover alternatives with related stakeholders by this Consortium for reinforcing intra-African tea commerce and selling tea globally with the view to reinforce market entry and sustainability.” Ambassador Odida said.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Republic of Uganda – Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
