Organisation of Southern Cooperation - OSC

Home
Ethiopia
Jijiga
Organisation of Southern Cooperation - OSC

Directions Website

The intergovernmental organisation of and by the South, for a Third Way of Development.

14/08/2026

Statement: 6th Session of the OSC’s Extraordinary General Assembly.

Read the Statement here: https://osc.int/statement-6th-session-of-the-oscs-extraordinary-general-assembly/

03/08/2026

The following statement was published by the Secretary-General on his personal channels and is shared here for the information of the wider public.

19/06/2026

Statement: 5th Session of the OSC’s Extraordinary General Assembly.

Read the Statement here: https://osc.int/statement-5th-session-of-the-oscs-extraordinary-general-assembly/

26/12/2025

Statement on the General Assembly's decisions regarding the Secretary-General's Resignation and the Discontinuation of the Organisation’s Operations.

Read the Statement here: https://osc.int/statement/

18/12/2025

The Secretary-General, Manssour Bin Mussallam, participated in the Conference on South–South Cooperation and Justice for Africans and Afrodescendant Peoples through Reparations, contributing to high-level reflections on the responsibilities of the Greater South in the context of a rapidly changing global order.

During the discussions, the Secretary-General underscored the importance of consolidating collective efforts to advance a more just and equitable world, highlighting key priorities including the strengthening of people-to-people connections through mobility and creative industries, the generation of strategic leverage via investments in sovereignty-enhancing sectors, the reinforcement and interoperability of regional and continental integration frameworks, and the establishment of endogenous financial and taxation mechanisms to support sustainable development agendas.

The conference, convened by the Embassy of Colombia in Addis Ababa, provided a timely platform for dialogue and exchange on reparative justice and South–South cooperation.

17/12/2025

The Secretary-General, Manssour Bin Mussallam, addressed the Institute of Foreign Affairs in Addis Ababa yesterday on “A Third Way: the Greater South Amidst Global Disorder.”

The exchange provided an opportunity for a substantive discussion on the pathways opening for the peoples and countries of the Greater South.

“Ours is the collective, historic responsibility to forge a more equitable global order—for the South and North alike,” stated the Secretary-General.

16/12/2025

𝐈𝐅𝐀 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭

H.E. Manssour Bin Mussallam, Secretary-General of the Organization of Southern Cooperation, highlighted the critical importance of sovereignty for countries in the Global South, emphasizing control over knowledge, culture, technology, and resources:

◆ Emphasized technological sovereignty, enabling developing countries to control innovation, production, and research priorities rather than relying on external powers.

◆ Highlighted cultural and educational sovereignty, calling for curricula and narratives that reflect local histories, African contributions, and indigenous knowledge systems.

◆ Advocated for health and vaccine sovereignty, addressing inequities in access, storage, and representation in global research agendas.

◆ Urged food and energy sovereignty, including local control over agricultural systems and renewable energy production, with a focus on protecting communities and resources.

05/12/2025

Statement by the Secretary-General Manssour Bin Mussallam announcing his resignation.

Subtitles in Spanish and French available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcsfunNm-Q0

03/12/2025

❌A child cannot learn in a language that does not recognise them.

🌐Across the Greater South, linguistic inequality remains one of the most persistent — and least acknowledged — barriers to educational justice. Research shows that mother-tongue education boosts comprehension, lowers dropout rates, and strengthens national cohesion, yet millions of learners still begin school in languages they do not speak.

✏️If the Greater South is to shape its own future, it must begin by teaching in the languages of its people. Mother-tongue education is not only cultural preservation; it is the foundation of dignity, equity, and meaningful transformation.

Discover more: www.osc.int

01/12/2025

😷Around this time in 2019, the first cases of a new and unfamiliar illness began to surface — what we would later know as COVID-19, a crisis that unleashed a global catastrophe.

❌But the catastrophe did more than disrupt lives; it exposed the long-standing structures of inequality that shaped access to vaccines for the countries of the Greater South.

➡️If we truly seek a fairer world, the lesson must endure: health sovereignty and genuine cooperation cannot rest on donations or “aid”, but on local production, technology transfer, endogenous development, and shared decision-making.

Discover how we can achieve this: https://osc.int/programme/

Address

Egypt Street , Lideta Sub-City, Woreda 04, House N° 1986
Jijiga
1165

Website

https://osc.int/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Organisation of Southern Cooperation - OSC posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.