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With the help of its partners, the government of Togo recently supported farmers in the Keran prefecture (Savanes region) with CFA613 million, as part of the Emergency Program to Strengthen the Resilience of Vulnerable Populations in the Savanes Region (PURS in French). Nearly 40,000 farmers received agricultural kits last weekend in Dapaong.
These kits, consisting mainly of certified market...
Togo is updating its National Strategy for Implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. This Convention, which Togo has adhered to since July 22, 2004, aims to reduce pollutants and pesticides’ impacts on people’s health worldwide. Lomé wants to amend its current policy on regulatory developments at the international level, to match updates from the Conference of...
The European Union (EU) plans a mission in Togo and three other West African countries, to prevent jihadists from spreading in the region. The mission, a civil-military mission, targets Togo, Ghana, Benin, and Côte d'Ivoire and could be kicked off in a few months.
As reported by the German newspaper Die Welt on August 27, citing European diplomats, besides fighting jihadists, the...
Asky Airlines has added the Nairobi (Kenya)-Lomé (Togo) route to its flights. The first flight on the route is scheduled for October 1, 2023. With the move, Asky, which is based in Lomé, directly connects West and East Africa. Three weekly flights are also planned, on a 154-seater 737-800 two-class aircraft.
Just a few days before the announcement, Togo acquired a 14% stake in the pan-African...
Rony Yedidia Clein is Israel's new ambassador to Togo. She presented her credentials to Togo's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Dussey, at the end of last week.
The Abidjan-based diplomat also represents her country in Benin and Burkina Faso. Leveraging her 30 years of experience in diplomacy, Yedidia Clein said she will help bilateral cooperation between Lomé and Tel Aviv be more...
Sergio Mujica, the Secretary General of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), was in Togo last week, as part of an African tour. Mujica was received on August 22 by Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe, the Togolese Prime Minister. They talked mainly about how important adopting ISO standards is for the socio-economic development of countries all over the world.
In preparation for the...
The World Bank will release in Spring 2024 a new annual report on business climate, the Business Ready (B-READY) report. Togo, the Bank just announced, will be one of the 54 countries evaluated in the first edition of this report, which replaces the Doing Business.
The new project is at the heart of the World Bank Group’s strategy, and like its predecessor, it aims to assess business and...
Togolese Prime Minister Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe recently visited the construction site of the Togblékopé Mother & Child Hospital. The official, on the occasion, said the works for these facilities, which are being built in all five regions of the country, were “moving well”.
“Together with the ROK Development company, I visited the Togblékopé Mother & Child Hospital worksite. I...
Claudius Fischbach is Germany’s new ambassador to Togo. The European official presented his credentials to the Togolese foreign minister, Robert Dussey, on August 22, 2023.
In a social media post, Dussey warmly welcomed Mathias Veltin’s replacement: “I wish you a fruitful stay in Togo. Your commitment to strengthening our long-term bilateral ties is highly appreciated by our people....
In Togo, merchant services, which include personnel services, accommodation and catering, housing, and communication services, among others, recorded a 4.4% growth in May 2023, year-on-year. The upward dynamic, which was recently disclosed in an economic note by the BCEAO, was spread across the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).
In the Union, Togo, however, ranked third in terms...
The Greater Lomé Autonomous District (DAGL) is running an awareness campaign on waste management. Launched on August 23, the project ends next year, in July. It is connected to phase 3 of the Lomé Urban Environment Project (PEUL III).
Broadly, the awareness campaign aims to urge the people of the Greater Lomé region to adopt environmentally-friendly behaviors. Among others, the campaign will...
Deposits in Togo’s microfinance institutions or decentralized finance institutions (DFIs) grew by CFA21 billion, year-on-year, in Q1 2023. The Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) disclosed the figure in a report on microfinance covering the first quarter of the year.
In absolute terms, this growth is the second-highest behind Côte d'Ivoire (+24.85 billion FCFA, +5.0%). Next come...
Several experts from ECOWAS countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are currently holding a meeting in Lomé. The roundtable, which opened on August 21 and closes on August 25, mainly focuses on bottlenecks to the implementation of the ECOWAS nuclear safety integrated plan.
"We are in Lomé to explore together action plans to assist ECOWAS member states in nuclear...
A new power network was inaugurated last week in Koto-Copé, a village 17km south of Atakpamé. According to the Agence Togolaise de Presse (ATOP), the infrastructure includes a 20-meter medium-voltage network, a 50 kVA MV/LV transformer, 700 meters of low-voltage network, and 15 street lamps.
Launched by the Ministry of Energy and Mining, the project falls under Togo’s national...
For the next two years, Yawa Kouigan, the mayor of the Ougou 1 municipality, will co-head the WAEMU’s Council of Territorial Collectivities (CCT-UEMOA), as Vice President. She was appointed on August 22, during the Council’s extraordinary assembly in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
The Togolese official, according to the CCT-UEMOA, was picked in recognition of Togo’s respect for democratic...
The Togolese State has joined the shareholding of Lomé-based pan-African airlines Asky. It has bought 600,000 shares or 14.39% of the group with about CFA6 billion.
The deal was signed on August 21, 2023, by the Togolese Minister of Finance, Sani Yaya, and Asky’s founder, Gervais Djondo. Several Togolese officials and representatives from partnering institutions, including Serge Ekue (of the...