USAID coffee sector coordinator Mr. Getachew Zeleke told SSI: “specialty coffee had been coming from Yirgachefe, Harar but at this competition international coffee graders from US and Holland give more than 80 percent to five coffee types by considering coffee specialty”.

“Participating at this  event potential afforded by the fine coffees of Africa, providing market linkages for both buyers and sellers of specialty coffee so that people around the world “

57 types of coffee came to coffee grading to certify as coffee specialty and to participate Mombassa African fine coffee conference at Ethiopian Coffee Exporters Association. From 57 at the first stage 15 types passed and in the second evaluation only five were selected to go to the Mombassa international coffee conference. According to Getachew USAID presented 51 types of coffee from 57.
          
 The EAFCA 7th African Fine Coffee Conference and Exhibition theme is "A Celebration at the Gateway" and will include conference.

About half the world’s specialty coffees are produced in the fine coffee belt of Africa, which stretches from Ethiopia through Zimbabwe, and a tremendous potential exists to produce more and improve the quality of these fine coffees. While the potential indeed exists, coffee from the region only constitutes about 15 percent of the world's specialty coffee imports.

EAFCA is a member-driven association of specialty coffee producers, processors and marketers from ten chapters in the Eastern African Region: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Our membership is continually growing, and the Association has already grown beyond the confines of Eastern Africa to include Central and Southern Africa coffee growing regions. Membership currently also extends to buyers and coffee specialists from all over the globe, all who share a passion for coffee from its original source, the real thing.