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Banjul, 21 August 2025 — The Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) undertook an official visit to the Republic of The Gambia, led by its Secretary-General, Manssour Bin Mussallam, with the purpose of consolidating strategic ties and exploring new areas of collaboration in support of national an…

Mwamandi Munthali, the Institutional Learning Coordinator in the Department of Systemic and Endogenous Educational Development (SEED), presented and reflected on Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s manifesto, which has been structured as a framework for understanding global power and resistance through the…

Adama, 18 August 2025 — The Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) took part in the First Annual Conference of the National Reading Network, organised by the Ministry of Education of Ethiopia, World Vision and other partners in the city of Adama. Representing t…

Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Multilateral Affairs Ambassador Teshome Toga, along with an OSC delegation, held a fruitful meeting at the OSC headquarters in Addis Ababa with representatives from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). …

The Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC), in partnership with the African Group of Negotiators (AGN) on Climate Change, and Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA), will convene a high-level side event during the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS-2) in Addis Ababa.Pa…

As part of its commitment to the democratisation of knowledge, the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) is pleased to make available the full text of the lecture “The Faded Footprints of Utopia: A Southern Perspective”, delivered by Argentine philosopher and academic Ricardo Forster at Addis A…

On 4 August 2025, at the OSC headquarters in Addis Ababa, the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) and the Institute of Foreign Affairs (IFA) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at strengthening strategic collaboration in key areas of …

Secretary-General Manssour Bin Mussallam held a fruitful meeting in Addis Ababa with H.E. Kashim Shettima, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Their exchanges focused on strengthening cooperation between Nigeria and the…

This book talk program contemplated 'Creating the University of the Future,' a pioneering work organised by Ulf-Daniel Ehlers and Laura Eigbrecht that assesses the vital requirement for academia to evolve within our quickly transitioning global context.Prof. Hirut Woldemariam, Under-Secretary-Genera…

As part of the OSC's commitment to participatory governance, on 23 July 2025, Secretary-General Manssour Bin Mussallam convened a briefing with Ambassadors at OSC Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The exchang…