President Museveni has challenged African leaders to add value to their minerals to create jobs and wealth creation.

Museveni says Africa continues to lose jobs and money to Europeans who exploit African minerals at low cost and sell them at higher prices earning them higher profits.

Museveni was speaking at the 2nd G25 Africa coffee summit at Speke Resort Munyonyo.

The second G25 Africa coffee summit has attracted leaders from coffee-producing countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania among others.

The three the day summit will see African leaders discuss measures to improve the Coffee sector on the African continent.

Africa continues to lie at the low end of coffee production on the continent with many countries only exporting the product in a row form which has seen Africa fetch just 2.4 billion US dollars from the $ 460 billion global coffee Value.

This is raised from the 118 M bags of the 60 kg exported by the continent.

While opening the summit, President Yoweri Museveni challenged fellow African leaders to promote value addition not to only coffee but also to other products and raw materials if Africa is to see growth.

Museveni says continued exportation of raw materials fosters job loss to the continent as well as denying the continent revenue.

Museveni says this is a result of the continuing global parasitic system.

Museveni wants these African leaders to conduct internal strategies in their respective countries promoting value addition to raw materials.

He has also lashed out at European countries which continue to exploit African resources leaving Africans poor.

This he says has limited the continent's purchasing power.

Some African leaders have linked the low revenue from coffee to a lack of technology in value addition as well as poor farming methods.

These now want member states to pass a resolution and consider coffee as a strategic commodity on the African continent.

This they believe will see more resources challenged to promote the coffee sector on the continent

According to HE. Manssour Bin Mussallam, secretary general of the Organization of Southern Cooperation, trade injustice in the coffee sector affects not only Africa but also other continents such as Asia and South America.

The call for equal share he says will only be attained if these continents work together to demand for what's theirs.

He suggested that all countries sell processed coffee to European countries instead of green coffee beans where they are repackaged and returned as premium.

This he says will see the growth of the local value-addition industries as well as Increased revenue for the farmers.

Today marks the beginning of the three-day G25 Africa coffee summit.

Gathered in Uganda, these African leaders are expected to discuss topics like financing coffee production, the role of digitalization in coffee, and the role of women and youth in coffee production among others.

For now, these leaders have signed a declaration where they commit to unanimously fight for the African Space in the global coffee market.