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UNESCO will help Togo improve its education system. Last Thursday, the UN body held a meeting in Lomé, to assess the country’s needs in this sector, in line with the Educational Resources project which was launched in June 2021 and will be financed by the French Development Agency (AFD).
The meeting, which gathered actors of the education sector, allowed UNESCO to identify the steps it needs...
The Togolese Ministry of Water and Village Hydraulics launched last Thursday the operational phase of the PAGEPC, a project that aims to improve access to clean water and sanitation in the Avé 2 and Zio 2 municipalities. The project will be carried out by Pionniers en Action pour le Développement Intégré à l'Environnement (PADIE), a private association, at a cost of CFA437...
As part of the West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA), Togo received another $12 million (CFA7 billion) from the International Development Association (IDA) near the end of December 2021. Togo First obtained the information from experts close to the matter.
The funds, which are equally divided into a loan and a grant, will be used to continue anti-erosion works in one of...
The government of Togo said on February 14 that it would repay all of the country’s 117 municipalities the costs of issuing birth certificates, in line with the law instituting the free provision of this document in the country.
According to a decree jointly issued by Payadowa Boukpessi and Sani Yaya, respectively the minister of territorial administration and the minister of finance, "the...
France recently classified Togo among the least risky countries, regarding the pandemic. The announcement comes as the European country relaxes sanitary measures as vaccination levels worldwide go up.
Togo is, according to Paris, among countries with “negligible or moderate circulation of the virus, in the absence of an emerging variant of concern.” France thus walks in the steps of the UK...
The capital of the Société d'infrastructures numériques (SIN), a sovereign entity responsible for holding strategic assets in the telecommunications and ICT sector in Togo, has been raised to around 14.2 billion FCFA, Togo First learned.
Established in November 2016 by presidential decree, the SIN was endowed with a capital of 200 million FCFA, fully subscribed and paid up by the...
Togo is exploring ways to develop a whole value chain of cotton by-products. The country, which mainly grows the crop for export is carrying out a feasibility study for this project and key players have been working on its validation since February 15, 2022, in Lomé.
The stakeholders concerned include the Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT)), the FAO, the United Nations...
The West African Development Bank (BOAD), has completed the first stage of its capital increase, raising CFA837 billion, with the support of its main shareholders (regional and non-regional).
“I am pleased to announce that BOAD has completed the first stage of its capital increase for an amount representing more than half of its target of USD 1.5 billion. I would like to thank our shareholders...
In Togo, the Société des Transports de Lomé (SOTRAL) will expand its car fleet via a government-backed project worth more than CFA15 billion.
Announced by the ministry of transport, the project will enable SOTRAL to get new buses, MAN buses notably, a few months from now.
This project aligns with the fifth axis of the government roadmap, which aims to “make Togo a logistics and...
In Togo, the collection of road user fees at the "PK17" site on National Road No. 5 (Lomé-Kpalimé) has been temporarily suspended due to ongoing work on the axis. This was stated in a press release issued by the ministry of public works on February 14, 2022.
The public authority explains that "due to rehabilitation and asphalting works on the Lomé-Kpalimé road and the construction of the...
Due to the recent shortage in cement supply that Togo faces, in its northern region especially, price speculation is becoming recurrent. To tackle this issue, the government decided to “regulate cement export,” according to the minister of trade, Adédzé Kodjo recently.
The official, during a field visit to Dapaong (620 km north of Lomé) last week, argued that "it doesn’t make sense that...
Togo is one of the four non-fragile countries where the quality of public policies and national institutions improved in 2020. This is according to the World Bank’s latest Country Policy and Institutional Assessment for Africa (CPIA) report covering the period from January to December 2020.
Indeed, "the non-fragile countries that recorded an increase in their overall score are Côte d'Ivoire,...
Sanlam Insurance opened three new branches in Lomé last Thursday. The new offices are located in Kégué-Zogbédji, Agoè-Démakpoè, and Djidjolé-Totsi.
According to Sanlam’s country manager, opening the new offices is part of the company’s “proximity policy” which aims at enabling the population to access its products and services (automobile, fire accidents, miscellaneous risks,...
New commitments from U.S. agencies rebounded in 2021, reaching their highest in two decades, according to ForeignAssistance.gov, the State Department platform that compiles data on U.S. foreign assistance. This record follows a drop in 2020, amid tensions between Lomé and Washington following the presidential election in Togo.
As of April 2, 2021, the date of the last update of foreign aid...
The European investment fund, Investors and Partners (I&P), will help Lomé Business School (LBS) create an e-learning platform. The financial support, I&P’s first in a private business in Togo, was announced by the fund last week, via a statement.
Under the partnership, LBS will also get equipment and be supported in implementing an educational engineering process...
The 8th edition of the WAEMU Banks and SMEs Fair (SBPME-UEMOA) will be held in the Togolese capital, next November. The information comes from Hermann Naglo, Permanent Secretary of the show, who communicated on this event at the end of a meeting with the President of the Special Delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Togo (CCIT), Nathalie Bitho.
During this meeting in Lomé,...