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Best of Congo Cooperatives 2nd Edition 2025
The second edition of Best of Congo Cooperatives Coffee Competition competition and auction event will be taking place August 11-12 simultaneously in the Eastern DRC city of Goma and in New York City, with a tasting scheduled on August 12 at the Counter Culture Coffee training center in Lower Manhattan. An online auction will follow, with coffees expected to arrive stateside in late 2025.
BEST OF CONGO CO-OPERATIVES 1ST EDITION 2024
Quality competition breaks new ground and produces record prices for the Eastern DRCongo coffee sector.
In the first week of July 2024, African Coffee Connect, in partnership with CongoAgri Consulting and ONAPAC Goma, organised best of Congo Co-operatives 1st Edition, the first ever microlot competition in DRCongo to culminate in sales by auction to overseas coffee roasters.
Emergency Response to flash floods and landslides along Lake Kivu
The immediate response of ACC’s affiliated coffee cooperatives, whose members bore the grunt of this devastation, was to consult together
2023 Specialty Coffee Association Expo
The 2023 Specialty Coffee Association Expo in Portland, Oregon was the first Expo with people back to full travel with no covid restrictions
First meeting of ACC’s affiliated Congolese cooperatives
It was an excellent first opportunity to look together at the common challenges and opportunities facing Eastern Congo’s cooperatives