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Togo could receive approximately $110.8 million in new financing from the International Monetary Fund under its Extended Credit Facility (ECF) program, pending approval by the IMF Executive Board after a mission conducted in Lomé from May 11 to 19, 2026.
The mission was part of the third and fourth reviews of Togo’s three-year ECF arrangement. Discussions focused on recent economic...
Togo is a strategic investment hub for West Africa, the Corporate Council on Africa said after talks with President Faure Gnassingbé in Lomé on Thursday.
The assessment was made by Florizelle Liser, chief executive of the U.S. business organization representing American and African companies.
Liser said investor interest in Togo is driven by several structural advantages, including its...
Togo's Good Financial Governance (GFG) project has ended after four years of implementation, with officials presenting its results at a closing ceremony held in Lome on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
Funded by Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) with 9.5 million euros ($10.7 million), or more than 6.23 billion CFA francs, and implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft...
The third edition of Grande Rencontre des Compliance et Risk Officers (GRCRO), a pan-African compliance conference, will be held in Lomé on July 8 and 9, 2026, at the Hotel 2 Février. Nearly 1,000 compliance professionals, regulators, magistrates and compliance technology providers are expected to attend, up from 600 at the previous edition. Discussions will focus on fraud, corruption and money...
IB Bank Togo gathered its corporate clients on May 20 for a seminar on international banking operations, reflecting a broader adjustment underway since new UEMOA foreign exchange regulations came into force in December 2024.
Banks across Togo are adapting their services to help clients navigate a significantly revised regulatory environment. Importers and exporters are also being forced to...
Scanning Systems and the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) have signed a memorandum of understanding to deploy one-stop border posts across the continent, drawing renewed attention to Togo’s Cinkassé crossing on the northern border with Burkina Faso.
The Cinkassé one-stop border post (OSBP), which opened in May 2011, brings together customs, health and transport...
Togo’s economy continued to expand strongly in 2025, outperforming forecasts from major international institutions. According to preliminary annual national accounts estimates published in May 2026 by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED), real gross domestic product rose 6.3% to 5,649.2 billion CFA francs, from 5,314.8 billion in 2024.
In nominal...
Togo’s telecommunications regulator, the Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes (ARCEP), will launch a nationwide customer satisfaction survey on May 26 targeting users of mobile services.
The survey aims to assess consumer views on the quality of services provided by mobile operators across the country.
Subscribers will be asked to rate several aspects of...
Education, digital technology and research experts met in Lomé on Tuesday for a regional meeting on Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Access and Open Data in West Africa.
The meeting, organized with UNESCO support, aims to define a regional strategy for digital education, access to knowledge and scientific cooperation.
Discussions are focusing on the digitalization of educational...
On the sidelines of a regional nutrition conference bringing together 22 countries in Lomé, a field visit to the Vo prefecture on May 12, 2026, spotlighted a pilot project aiming to integrate nutrition, vaccination, early childhood stimulation and civil registration into a single system managed by local municipalities.
A Fragmented System
In Togo, roughly two in 10 children under five suffer...
Togo’s umbrella body for municipalities, the Faîtière des communes du Togo (FCT), and the Association des municipalités du Niger (AMN) launched a municipal cooperation partnership in Lome on Tuesday, signing a memorandum of understanding to formalize the initiative.
The agreement was signed by FCT President Koubounou Touni and AMN President Boubacar Soumana Garanké. It aims to strengthen...
Gordon Jonathan Lewis, UNICEF’s Deputy Regional Director for West and Central Africa, spoke with Togo First on the sidelines of the West and Central Africa Regional Conference on Nutrition and Early Childhood, held in Lomé from May 11 to 13, 2026. Representing Regional Director Gilles Fagninou, he discussed field realities, persistent bottlenecks and the challenges facing Togo.
TF: West...
Togo has extended the application deadline for “École de la Chance,” a free vocational training program targeting vulnerable young women in the Autonomous District of Greater Lomé (DAGL), to June 20, 2026.
The initial deadline had been set for May 20, but authorities granted a one-month extension following a surge in applications at registration centers. The pilot phase of the initiative...
Togo has launched a new mobile campaign to issue nationality certificates across the country’s prefectures, as authorities seek to expand access to civil administration services and support the transition to digital procedures. The operation, led by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in partnership with Canadian Bank Note (CBN), will run until July 9, 2026.
The initiative comes as Togo...
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation visited Togo’s Adétikopé Industrial Platform (PIA) last week to meet with stakeholders and assess the platform’s contribution to the economy.
Discussions focused on the platform’s role in addressing some of Togo’s structural economic challenges, particularly export diversification and improvements to the business environment. PIA...
Thirteen Togolese municipalities validated their Local Urban Development Plans (PLU) last week, adopting a strategic planning tool under the national urban development and land security program in which they are participating as pilot communes.
Based on an assessment of local conditions, each PLU defines development guidelines, action programs, implementation mechanisms and applicable urban...