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After Mahajanga (Madagascar), Dschang (Cameroon), and Bouaké (Ivory Coast), Lomé is the latest city to benefit from Africompost, a waste-recycling project that is financed by the French Development Agency (AFD).
This week, AFD said it pumped €200,000 (over CFA 131 million) into the project. In effect, the project involves setting up new facilities for improving the treatment and...
The World Food Program (WFP) recently said it will help Togo boost its food production, in line with efforts to guarantee food security in West Africa, and the hinterland especially. Last Wednesday, Oct. 19, the deputy executive director of the UN branch, Joyce Kanyangwa Luma, met with Togo’s PM, Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé, to discuss the matter.
"Togo plays a very important part in the...
Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbé, and England’s King Charles III, met yesterday, Oct. 20, in London. The two men mainly talked about peace, democracy, and sustainable development.
“We reaffirmed a common commitment to continue our efforts to promote peace, democracycy, and sustainable development,” Faure Gnassingbé wrote on Twitter.
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Over the next three years, the German ministry for economic cooperation and development (BMZ) will help 10,000 Togolese cotton farmers to produce their crops more sustainably. The European ministry will do so through GIZ’s “Support project for sustainable cotton production in Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, and Togo”. The latter was launched last week in Kara, the pilot city in...
The government of Togo wishes to make expropriation procedures less costly and simpler. In this framework, the Council of Ministers of October 17 evaluated a draft bill to amend the land and property code.
"Indeed, the implementation of these procedures has revealed too much complexity and a prohibitive cost for the state," the government wrote in a statement. "In order to address...
A terrorist attack will be simulated in Lomé’s administrative district next Thursday, October 20. The ministry of security and civil protection made the announcement in a statement issued on October 17, 2022.
The upcoming exercise is "part of the training of security forces, devoted to specialized intervention techniques," according to the note signed by Brigadier General Yark Damehane, the...
After landing the Threshold program, currently underway, Togo keeps striving to secure the Compact next. The latter, let’s emphasize, is the most important support mechanism of the American Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Last Thursday, Oct. 13, Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbé, met MCC’s Executive Director Alice Albright. The two parties took the opportunity to review the...
In the past three years, the State’s Support Fund for Territorial Collectivities (FACT) spent nearly CFA15 billion on local municipalities. The minister of territorial administration disclosed this during the council of ministers held in Lomé on October 17.
"These funds made it possible to carry out collective social works even if there are still challenges regarding the optimal use of these...
Togo retained CFA33 billion out of CFA70 billion raised on the WAEMU-securities market last Friday, Oct. 14. The amount mobilized exceeds the country’s target - CFA30 billion - for the issue of fungible treasury bonds.
The issue, a simultaneous issue, comes shortly after Togo scaled up its fundraising ambitions for the year, due to a 5.4% increase in the budget imputed to global inflation and...
Sun King, the solar home energy solutions provider, recently revealed it acquired Soleva, an operator and distributor of off-grid solutions active in Togo, among other countries.
Before Sung King bought Soleva, the two businesses were partners on the Cizo project, a rural electrification project initiated by the Togolese presidency. Under their partnership, Soleva distributed the solar kits of...
After jumping by 50% in 2021, passenger traffic at Lomé airport kept growing in the first half of 2022. In H1 2022, the number soared by over 40.8%, official sources revealed. Air freight also grew over the period, though very little (+1.8%).
The growth in passenger traffic is attributable to borders reopening, worldwide, and key sectors, like tourism, recovering. Also, in Togo, the...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) granted $141,000 (about CFA95 million) to six Togolese civil society organizations (CSOs) invested in environmental protection. The related agreement was signed last Thursday, in Lomé.
The six CSOs will use the money to launch environmental and natural resource management projects across Togo. The projects, which will be carried out over a...
In line with efforts to tackle corruption, Togo recently adopted a five-year strategic plan. Drawn up by the High Authority for the Prevention and Fight against Corruption and Related Offences (HAPLUCIA), the plan was presented on October 13, 2022, in Lomé to the country's various socio-economic actors and technical and financial partners.
The new strategy has three major axes. The first aims...
President Gnassingbé met with David Malpass, president of the World Bank, last Wednesday in Washington. The Togolese leader was with several members of his government.
Among others, the talks focused on Togo’s development priorities, such as economic growth, economic diversification, cash transfers to help the poor, business climate and its improvement, and digitalization. Emphasis was...
Traffic at the port of Lomé slumped by 6% over the first six months of this year, according to official sources.
Though Togolese authorities did not explain the decline, it could be due to higher freight costs worldwide, pushed by inflation, the Ukrainian war, plus the disruption of production tools and logistics chains. Indeed, these various factors caused economic operators to postpone...
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé met with the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, on October 12, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the Annual Meetings of the Bretton Woods financial institutions.
According to the Togolese presidency, the two personalities discussed the financing of development actions,...