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This year, the Togolese government plans to pre-finance the purchase of fertilizers for local farmers with over CFA800 million. The distribution campaign kicked off on Saturday, June 3, in Sada (Tchaoudjo Prefecture), setting the stage for the 2023-2024 agricultural campaign.
Lomé intends to provide the poorest farmers with NPK 15-15 and urea fertilizers through the Togo National Food Security...
Togolese authorities recently inaugurated a new slaughterhouse in Hemazo, in the Lacs prefecture. The inauguration ceremony took place on June 2, in the presence of Sandra Ablamba Johnson, the Minister and Secretary-General of the Presidency, Myriam Dossou d'Alméda, Minister of Base Development, and Aquéréburu Coffi Alexis, the Mayor of the Lacs 1 municipality.
According to Johnson,...
Togo needs about $10 million per year to finance a project that supports people living with HIV (PLHIV) and tuberculosis (TB) patients.
The amount was disclosed in a study ordered by the Permanent Secretariat of the National Council for the Fight Against AIDS (CNLS). The study report was validated on Friday, June 2, in Lomé, during a workshop organized in collaboration with UNAIDS and the...
Last Friday, Togo successfully raised CFA31 billion ($56 million) on the West African public securities market. Lomé raised the funds through a simultaneous issue of Treasury Bonds and Bills (BAT and OAT).
According to the Umoa-Titres agency, Togo secured CFA26 billion with the bills and the remaining CFA5 billion came through the bonds. The former will mature over 182 days and the latter over...
Togo has reached a new step in its biometric ID system project. The country just trusted the project to Atos and IDEMIA, according to a statement issued by ANID-TOGO, the Togolese ID Agency, on June 1, 2023.
The two French firms will develop the biometric system inspired by the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP). Concretely, they will design, build, test, and launch the national...
The World Bank plans to increase its commitments to the agricultural sector in West and Central Africa by $1.5 billion by next year. This announcement was made by Ousmane Diagana, the institution's VP for West and Central Africa, during a high-level meeting that was recently held in Lomé.
"We are set to increase our investments in the sector, from over $4 billion of already approved...
Togo teamed up with Morocco’s Phosphate Office (OCP) to carry out its agricultural development project, via mechanization and local fertilizer production.
The two parties signed two agreements in this framework on May 31, on the sidelines of a top-class meeting on fertilizer security that Lomé recently hosted. The agreements respectively aim to bolster agricultural mechanization in Togo...
The Presidents of Togo, Niger, and Guinea Bissau launched on May 31, 2023, a regional call to improve access to fertilizers in West Africa.
The leaders did so in the Togolese capital at the close of a top-level meeting to enhance fertilizer security in West Africa. The roundtable was organized by Togo, ECOWAS, and the World Bank. Several West African key players and development...
In Togo, the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (ARCOP) just started a team-training course for officials in charge of awarding public contracts at the municipality level. The course began yesterday, May 30, and will end on June 3. Over 500 participants from the Plateaux-Est, Ouest, and Maritime regions are participating.
They will learn about public procurement management procedures...
A delegation from the Union des Conseils économiques et sociaux et Institutions similaires des Etats et gouvernements membres de la Francophonie (UCESIF) is in Togo since May 28. They recently met with the country’s Prime Minister, Victoire Dogbé. With her, they talked ways to help Togo get its Economic and Social Council (ESC) running as soon as possible.
Thierry Beaudet, president...
Next Friday, June 2, Togo will proceed to a new issue on the WAEMU market. Lomé will try to raise CFA30 billion on the regional stock market.
The operation is a simultaneous issue of fungible treasury bonds (OATs) and fungible treasury bills (BATs).
According to the tender notice, the country will seek CFA20 billion via the bonds and CFA10 billion via the bills. The OATs have...
Fracht, the logistics Swiss group, is opening an office in Lomé, Togo. The group’s president for West Africa and the Indian Ocean, Lionel Tristan, made the announcement last week in a meeting with Togolese Minister of Maritime Economy, Edem Tengue.
Fracht picked the Togolese capital for its dynamism and the importance of its port platform on the West African coast. According to Tristan, the...
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) launched Togo’s Investment Policy Review (IPR) today, May 30, in Lomé. The meeting is organized by the Ministry of investment promotion.
Today and tomorrow, participants will learn about the strengths and weaknesses of projects launched to bolster investment in Togo.
This review, carried out by UNCTAD's Investment Policy Review...
Togo is currently hosting a regional meeting on fertilizer security in West Africa. Held at the 2 Février Hotel in Lomé, the meeting is organized in collaboration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the World Bank.
The two-day roundtable regrouped West African and Sahel leaders as well as key players in the agricultural sector, such as the Dangote Group. They will...
Last week, The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) celebrated ECOWAS Week. The event, which closed on May 26, was hosted at the Bank’s headquarters, in Lomé.
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Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé attended the inauguration of Nigeria's new President, Bola Tinubu, who succeeds Muhammadu Buhari.
"On this occasion, the Head of State will reiterate to his new Nigerian counterpart his congratulations and his readiness to sustain the cooperative relationships between Lomé and Abuja, for greater sub-regional integration, peace and stability," a...