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Lomé will host the first edition of the "Maritimafrica Week" from September 26 to 28. The event will be held under the theme: "Putting the blue economy at the service of Africa's development" and will bring together key players of Africa’s blue economy and their partners from other parts of the world. They will cover major issues and challenges of the maritime sector.
The event will feature...
The ECOWAS Community Committee for Conformity Assessment (ECOCONF) is currently meeting in Lomé to examine mechanisms to facilitate the free movement of goods within the community.
"We will be working on the rules for mandating, but also on the regional recognition of the various conformity assessment bodies," said Olga Kouassi, Director of the ECOCONF’s Standards and Audit Office, and...
The Togolese capital, Lomé, will host on September 9 the Youth Delivery Lab (YDL). This is a roundtable that will focus on the civic participation of youth in tackling youth issues and decision-making. Organized by the Youth for Youth (Y4Y) association, the meeting is themed: "From the promotion of local SMEs to the emergence of national champions: strategic issues and possible solutions for...
Togo Soja, Togo’s largest soybean processing plant is operational. The news was announced on August 31 by the Adetikope Industrial Platform (PIA) which houses the new plant.
"[The] Adetikope Industrial Platform is proud to officially announce the full operationality of Togo Soja, the local Soya processing plant located in the area," PIA announced. "Having successfully...
Electric motorbike manufacturer, Spiro (formerly M Auto) will increase its fleet in Togo and Benin, using a $63 million loan it just secured from Société Générale, the French banking group.
Besides expanding its fleet in the two West African markets, the e-mobility company will also set up new battery charging and swapping stations there. In detail, Spiro plans to acquire over...
A project to equip seventeen (17) villages with drinking water infrastructures is in the pipeline in Togo. The National Agency for Grassroots Development (ANADEB in French), which steers the project, just launched a nationwide tender to recruit contractors in this framework.
The 17 villages are spread across the Plateaux and Maritime regions–12 in the former and 5 in the latter. The...
Togo held its first Investors Breakfast of the year last Tuesday. The event brought together the Ministry of Investment Promotion and representatives of the local business community, including lawyers, architects, notaries, and customs declarants.
The meeting was chaired by the Minister of Investment Promotion, Rose Mivedor, and participants expressed their opinions-good and bad-on the...
Togo secured CFA23 billion in its latest issue on the WAEMU market. The operation–a simultaneous issue of fungible treasury bills and bonds–closed on August 25, 2023.
With the bills, Lomé raised CFA17.7 billion, and CFA5.6 billion with the bonds. Set to mature over 364 days, the former securities have multiple interest rates, while the latter mature over 5 years, at a rate of 6.25% per...
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...