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Google’s Equiano submarine Cable has been operational in Togo since August 2023. The news was disclosed earlier this week by Csquared Woezon, the public-private joint venture responsible for managing the cable and offering the internet capacity emanating from it for sale in Togo.
"The cable has been operational since August 2023, and is in operation," said Eudes Gbessi, Csquared Togo country...
The Togolese government met with representatives of the country’s health industry on November 7, 2023. Held in Lomé, the capital, the meeting focused on Universal Healthcare (Assurance Maladie Universelle, AMU) which is set to be deployed in two months.
The ministers of health, universal access to healthcare and social action, and the head of the Institut National d'Assurance Maladie...
Make Africa 2023 is currently ongoing in Lomé, the capital of Togo. This is an African festival on tech innovation and maker culture.
This year, the theme of the festival is “Faire Ensemble”(Do Together). Around 300 innovators, from different Fablabs (local laboratories focused on invention, creation, and research), will take part in the event. They are all from French-speaking African...
Togo has validated 14 out of 20 performance indicators for the MCC 2024. The score, which is the same as for the MCC 2023, was presented by the MCA-Togo Cell to the local press on November 8, in Lomé.
In detail, the West African country validated 7 out of 8 indicators in the "economic freedom" category, 5 out of 6 in "governing justly" and 2 out of 6 at the level of...
Togo’s SDG Investor Map should be ready by the end of the coming year. Gathered earlier this week in Lomé, several stakeholders of the sector (ed. Note: investment) have kicked off initiatives to achieve this goal.
Launched by the Togolese Ministry for Investment Promotion and the UNDP, the map project aims to boost access to the financial space of the country, relative to SDG...
Several African countries want the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) adopted in 2000 to run for 10 years more. Togo is one of them. Representing her country at the 20th African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum, the Togolese minister of trade, Kayi Mivedor, pleaded for the extension. Held on November 2-4 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the Forum’s theme was "Partnering to...
Nearly 240 of women living in the Greater Lomé region received CFA80,000 each from the government on November 7, 2023. The financing falls under the "Leadership, Economic Empowerment of Women and Girls, and the Fight against Gender-based Violence" project, initiated by the Ministry of Social Action and Women Promotion and the French Embassy in Togo.
The donation ceremony took place in the...
Gozem, the African transport and delivery super App, just announced it has acquired Moneex, a Benin-based startup that offers multi-currency account services for international finance and payments.
“We are pleased to welcome Moneex to the Gozem family, bringing talented entrepreneurs has always been extremely valuable in our ability to innovate. With a lot of excitement, the new fintech...
The third edition of the Marché international de l'artisanat du Togo (MIATO) (International Fair of Craftsmanship of Togo) ended on November 5, 2023. The closing ceremony was attended by Togo’s Minister of trade and local consumption, Rose Kayi Mivedor. On the same occasion, several prizes were awarded to some of the participants.
The prizes include the Special Award of the Head of State...
Togo, Benin, Burkina Faso launch 2nd phase of joint program to tackle border conflicts and extremism
Togo, Benin, and Burkina Faso launched the second phase of the Support Program for the Prevention of Conflict and Violent Extremism in Border Areas last weekend in Lomé. This is a new milestone in the neighboring countries' commitment to tackling community conflicts.
Through this project, the three countries will tackle issues contributing to fragility in border areas and make these areas...
Lomé is hosting, from November 6 to 10, the Woezon Tech Week 2023 (WTW). Organized by CSquared Woezon, the firm steering Google’s Equiano submarine cable project, the event celebrates digital transformation in Togo.
Activities scheduled during the Woezon Tech Week 2023 include a special Career Day for students, sports activities (the Fiber Cup), a two-day training course, and an...
Togo has made significant progress relative to the threshold program of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which the country kicked off two years ago. This is according to the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Account-Togo (MCA-Togo), which held its fifth ordinary meeting last October.
According to Bougonou N'gname Jeanne, Managing Director of MCA-Togo, the two projects...
Niger wants Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbé, to act as a facilitator between their country and the international community. Togo will stand alongside the United States as guarantor of the military disengagement of French troops in Niger.
A Niger delegation led by the country’s minister of defense, General Salifou Mody, submitted the request to the Togolese leader who recently received...
A delegation of Togolese businesspeople is currently in Shangai, China. Led by the Chamber of Trade and Industry of Togo (CCI-Togo) and the Centre Togolais des Expositions et Foires de Lomé (CETEF), the group attends the ongoing China International Import Expo 2023.
According to the CCI-Togo, Togo has a pavilion where the delegation exhibits tropical products and artwork, among...
Togo joined the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), an intergovernmental organization whose role is to facilitate the ecological transition of its member countries towards a green economy. The West African nation became the organization’s 48th member State at its last assembly.
"The GGGI is delighted to welcome Togo as our 48th member state! Together, we embrace a shared vision of a...
By Elizabeth A.N. Fitzsimmons, Ambassador of the United States of America to Togo
At the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in December 2022, President Biden said "The United States is fully committed to Africa."
The future lies in Africa. One example is its young population: the median age in Togo is seventeen and a half. By 2050, one in four of the world's inhabitants will be in Africa. What happens...