The InterAfrican Coffee Organisation is an intergovernmental organisation composed of 25 African coffee producing countries.  Its objective is to take up the challenges associated with the world coffee challenge through a regional and international cooperation.  The need for setting up an organisation common African coffee plantation was felt towards the end of the forties, after the end of the Second World War, when peace having returned; the world production of coffee had known a sudden expansion.  African tested on the level of their continent the need to discipline the sector to make it profitable to the maximum.  Thus OIAC was born on December 07 1960 when 11 African producers met in Antananarivo (Madagascar) to provide the foundations of the statute establishing its and this following the will expressed by the African producers decided to study all problems related to coffee of African origin, to ensure a smooth and harmonious flow in the rate of production, to obtain the highest level of process on the market and initiate joint actions in order to promote consumption and to increase demand

These countries are:  Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo (DRC), Dahomey (Benin); Gabon; Kenya; Madagascar, Uganda, Tanganyika (Tanzania).

 

This circle of 11 countries has made progress and today OAIC counts 25 members who provide almost the total harvest of African coffee.