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The construction of the Regional Center for Agricultural Mechanization (CRMA) in Kara, northern Togo, began last week, on April 20. President Faure Gnassingbe laid the foundation stone for the facility in Tchitchao, where it is located.
The CRMA is being built on a 3-ha piece of land. It will be equipped with modern materials and equipment to facilitate the various stages of agricultural...
From now till June, Togo will record heavy rains and could face some flooding. Since March, early and heavy rains have been recorded throughout the country, especially in Lomé, the capital. According to hydrometeorological forecasts for April-May-June, the situation is not expected to subside any time soon, the Minister of Civil Protection revealed on 19 April.
Yark Damehame, Togo’s minister...
Togo inked a €10 million financing deal with the European Union (EU), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Food Program (WFP), last Thursday, 20 April 2023. The deal was sealed at the closing of the last stage of the Regional Fora of Togolese Agricultural Producers (FOPAT) in Kara.
Part of the funds will finance the Pro-SADI, a project aimed at strengthening food...
Kara’s new market has just been inaugurated. President Faure Gnassingbé inaugurated the facility as part of a one-day tour organized in honor of Togo’s 63rd independence anniversary.
The central market of Kara is built on a 6-ha piece of land. It has hundreds of stalls, stores, and administrative buildings. The infrastructure is part of the PARMCO, a project that supports...
Mario Giro, a special envoy from Italy, was in Lomé on Wednesday, April 19. He met with President Faure Gnassingbe. The Italian official asked for Togo’s support of Italy’s application to host the World Expo 2030.
Rome, the Italian capital, is competing for the spot with Busan, Odessa, and Riyad.
Securing Togo’s support is essential since the West African country is a Bureau...
The Ministry of Grassroots Development of Togo recently gave away some money and equipment to 160 vulnerable young artisans of Mango, northern Togo. The related ceremony was held on April 13, and it was presided over by the minister herself, Myriam Dossou.
The initiative is part of the Emergency Program for the Savannes Region (PURS), which supports young people’s businesses in the...
Sani Yaya, the Togolese minister of finance, met with some members of the World Bank Group involved in cooperation with Togo. Yaya met, notably, with Sergio Pimenta, vice president of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the WB’s private sector arm.
The two men talked mostly about bolstering the Bank’s investments in Togo, with a focus on the IFC’s strategy in the West African...
The Togolese government recently released an update on its actions to develop agriculture in the Kara region (northern Togo). The data covers planned agricultural development zone (ZAAP), financing for farmers, infrastructural support, and output, among others.
The Kara region, authorities reported, houses 71 ZAAPs. And out of the region’s 76 cantons, 61 house at least one ZAAP.
The...
Togo’s Ministry of Water recently announced a multi-purpose dam project in Sarakawa, which is located in the Kara region (northern Togo). The project was revealed on April 15, via a statement.
According to the source, the project will cost about CFA78 billion and will provide electricity and drinking water to the people of Sarakawa and Kara (which is 22km northwest of the...
Alexandre de Souza is the new head of the Togolese Center for Fairs and Exhibitions (CETEF). He officially took office yesterday, April 18, 2023.
De Souza was picked following a tender issued in May 2022 by the Ministry of Trade and local consumption. He took the place of Yakpey Comlan Nomadoli, who took over as interim director after Kueky-Banka Johnson.
As managing director, Alexandre...
Togo recorded an inflation rate of 7.1% in March 2023, up by 0.7% compared to the previous month (during which it fell). According to the National Institute of Statistics, and Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED), which released the figure, the increase was driven, mainly, by food prices (which rose by 1.3%), and services such as restaurants and hotels (+0.8%). The costs of housing, water,...
In Togo, the Autonomous Port of Lomé (PAL) will spend CFA60 million on its environmental protection strategy this year. The funds will finance several operations falling under the port’s 2023 environmental action plan which was unveiled last week.
Through the plan, the port’s management aims to: boost sanitation at the facility and on ships, sustainably manage pollution and nuisances,...
Bolstered by its recent success in the WAEMU market, Togo will attempt to repeat the experience. Lomé will seek again CFA30 billion on the regional market, through a simultaneous issue of fungible treasury bonds (OATs in French) and fungible treasury bills (BATs). The operation closes on April 24th.
In detail, the Togolese treasury hopes to raise CFA10 billion via the OATs. The securities have...
The Millenium Challenge Corporation and Togo recently reinforced their partnership by signing the $12 million Compact Development Fund agreement. The agreement was signed last Friday, April 14, by the Togolese minister of finance, Sani Yaya, and Cameron Alford, vice president, Compact operations, at MCC. Alice Patterson Albright and Mahmoud Bah, respectively managing director of the...
Togolese farmers and government officials will meet in Kara (northern Togo) on April 17-20, 2023. The town will host the final stage of Togo’s regional fora of agricultural producers (FOPATs).
The participants will review the sector’s performances and challenges its actors face. Also, the government will expose its vision for the structural transformation of Togolese agriculture to the...
President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé was in Pya, a town located in Kara, in the northern part of the country, on April 12. There, the Togolese leader met with a delegation of officials from neighboring Burkina to discuss the security situation at the border of the two countries.
The Burkinabe delegation was led by Colonel Boukaré Zoungrana, the Minister of Territorial Administration,...