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Togo's National Solidarity Agency (ASN), will undergo institutional and organizational reforms. The move was spurred by President Faure Gnassingbé himself.
Announced at the latest Council of Ministers meeting last Friday, the reforms will, according to the government, help the Agency adapt to the new administrative ecosystem and meet the country’s current challenges of indigence and...
Togo will soon launch a Social Sector Support Fund (FASS in French). The project was examined and adopted last Friday in Lomé, at the Council of Ministers.
The upcoming Fund will guarantee universal health insurance and support social programs and projects, funded by the State–in full or part.
The Fund will operate through a mechanism that will centralize all resources dedicated to the...
As part of the Food for Progress program, Togo will receive $29.8 million from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The funds will bolster Togolese agriculture, overall, and horticulture in particular. The program will be steered by the "Lutheran World Relief" (LWR), a US organization that promotes sustainable agricultural practices.
Already, LWR is looking for top management...
This month, the WURI biometric ID project launched the second proof of concept for its enrolment platform.
Scheduled to end on November 4, 2023, this phase of the project aims to enroll at least 2,000 people in the Grand Lomé area, the Maritime, Central, and Plateaux regions. The first proof of concept was carried out from April 20 to May 26, 2022.
In the Grand Lomé, this new phase will be...
Togo and Benin inked on October 18, 2023, a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Lomé for the implementation of community roaming between the two countries. The signing followed a two-day meeting on roaming regulation in the ECOWAS. The talks gathered mobile operators from Benin and Togo and the two countries' telecom regulators.
The deal enables Togolese residents traveling to Benin to enjoy...
A Togolese delegation was in the US last month on a mission to explore private American companies active in the digital sector. The mission was carried out as part of the formulation process for the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) 'Compact' Program, by the Compact Program's National Coordination for Togo.
During the trip, the Togolese delegation presented the West African country’s...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Togo launched the "Agricultural Transformation in the Nigerian Federal States and Togolese regions towards Achieving Zero Hunger" project in Lomé last week on Thursday, October 12.
The project carried out in partnership with "AfricaRice and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)", runs for three years and aims to improve...
One of the main threats to cybersecurity in Togo is the lack of awareness regarding the topic. That is according to the head of the country’s national agency for cybersecurity (ANCy), Cdt. Gbota Gwaliba. The official recently spoke to the media on the sidelines of the launch of the ECOWAS sub-regional hackathon on cybersecurity.
Main challenges
“The first vulnerability is that the...
Togo is hosting the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Regional Trade Policy Course. The course was launched on October 16 in Lomé, the capital, by Kayi Mivedor, Togolese Minister of Trade. It will last eight weeks.
Throughout the program, officials from ministries of trade of French-speaking African countries will exchange views on the WTO’s fundamental principles. It will provide participants...
At the 8th World Investment Forum held in Abu Dhabi, Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo, met with Dushyant Thakor, Deputy Executive Director of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA).
According to the Togolese Presidency, this was an opportunity to explore partnership opportunities between Togo and WAIPA, toward greater investment in the country.
At the end of the...
How can the challenges of sustainable development be tackled to make people more resilient? Faure Gnassingbé, the President of Togo, shared his take on this issue on October 16, 2023, at the ongoing World Investment Leaders Summit in Abu Dhabi.
The Togolese leader stressed that for national economies to develop, the dynamic of the strategic State must be supported. This, he believes, would spur...
So far into this year, the World Bank has committed $1,134.63 million in Togo, up about 381% compared to $238 million in 2018. This was disclosed by Sandra Johnson, Minister, Secretary General of the Presidency (photo) in charge of the country’s Business Climate Cell. The official spoke on the sidelines of a meeting last week with Ousmane Diagana, World Bank Vice-President for West...
In Togo’s Plateaux region, around 15,000 homes across 157 villages have benefited from the Social Nets and Basic Services project (Filets Sociaux et Service de Base or FSB) so far. This was revealed on October 11, by Katanga Mazalo, Managing Director of the ANADEB, the project's operational arm. According to the Togolese press agency, ATOP, Mazalo disclosed the figure during an assessment visit...
Lebanese companies active in Togo’s free-trade zone invested about CFA154 billion in the country in 2022. According to the Investment and Free Zone Promotion Agency (API-ZF), which compiled the statistics, these businesses created 8,723 jobs for nationals.
These figures were unveiled on Oct. 10, by the minister of investment promotion, Manualla Santos. This was during a meeting with the...
Over 1,300 experts and stakeholders of the microfinance sector should attend the sixth edition of the African Microfinance Week (AMW). Set to take place in Lomé, from October 16 to 20, the event’s theme is: "Towards inclusive and sustainable finance".
"Experts and players in the microfinance sector, from some sixty countries, in Africa and other parts of the world, are expected in Togo to...
The Togolese Ministry of Mining and Energy has several reforms in the pipeline to modernize these sectors, at the national level. The reforms were introduced by Mila Aziable, Minister of Mining and Energy, last Wednesday, during the council of ministers.
According to Aziable, the reforms should involve government players, municipalities, and the private sector.
One of the main reforms planned...