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Togo’s government plans to pump around CFA150 billion into its education system this year. The figure was set in the 2022 Finance Act.
The amount is almost the same as that set in 2021 (CFA154 billion) before it was scaled down (to CFA137 billion) by the rectifying bill adopted at the end of the year. Most of the funds will be shared among the four departments of the ministry of...
Last year, the Togolese state, its partners, and the private sector mobilized about CFA18.8 billion for the Ministry of Grassroots Development. The figure was recently disclosed by Myriam Dossou-D’almeida, who heads this ministry, during its last annual performance review.
Compared to 2020, the funds were down by 24.81%, mainly because a number of projects and programs were halted or...
As in recent years, Togo will rely heavily on the regional financial market to fund a large part of its 2022 budget. The country will mainly rely on long-dated bonds, based on a successful issue of a 15-year bond at the end of 2021.
While the amount set in Finance Act for the issues it plans to carry out on the regional money market in 2022 stands at CFA533 billion, the Togolese treasury will...
Already active in Senegal, the Thione Niang Group now eyes Togo’s agricultural industry, among others. On Feb 4, 2022, Thione Niang, executive director of the company, met with Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé, the Togolese Prime Minister, to discuss the matter.
Specializing in agriculture and digital services, the group plans to expand to Togo, leveraging new technologies. "The specificity is that we...
African leaders, including Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbe, are working to give a new impulse to education on the continent. This was disclosed on Feb 1, 2022, during the 39th Session of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee (HSGOC) held via videoconference.
After watching a presentation on the "link between education and development: a paradigm shift," the leaders...
The Board of Directors of the Bank of Africa (BOA) will host a meeting in Lomé this week, on the 6th and 7th. The news was announced Tuesday, Feb 1, by the group’s MD, Youssef Ibrahim, during an audience with Togo’s Prime Minister, Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé,
Ibrahim told the PM that leaders from all 19 subsidiaries of BOA, including Togo’s, would attend the meeting. He said they...
The Togolese government is currently working on its 2023-2025 Public Investment Program (PIP). A workshop, chaired by Sandra Ablamba Johnson, Minister, Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Republic, was launched last Monday in Lomé in this framework.
The new program should align with reforms introduced by the public investment programming (in July 2021), and even more with the...
In Togo, nearly 95,000 pupils (94,712) received over 14 million hot meals in 2021, as part of the government’s school canteen program. The figure was recently reported in the annual performance review of the Ministry of Grassroots Development. The document adds that the meals were shared among 337 preschool and primary schools, which is 8% of these school categories in Togo.
Steered by the...
Togo will soon have a new local airline connecting its northern and southern regions. This was revealed on Jan 31, 2022, by Col. Dokisime Gnama Latta (photo), who currently heads the Société Aéroportuaire Lomé Tokoin (SALT). The announcement was made at the 35th-anniversary celebration of the SALT, which manages Lomé’s airport.
"There is a project, for a company - whose name I do not yet...
Togo recently launched Trade Barriers Africa, an online mechanism aimed at boosting trade by removing non-tariff barriers (NTBs) between African countries. The facility is a component of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
"From now on, thanks to Trade Barriers Africa, Togolese traders will be able to report these barriers, also known as non-tariff barriers, and obtain their...
The Togolese government officially projects to spend CFA11 billion this year on projects aimed at improving its people’s living conditions.
The funds, under the supervision of the Ministry of Urban Planning, Housing, and Land Reform, will be used to make cities cleaner, build roads, facilitate movement in urban areas while making road traffic safer. A part will also cover sanitation, waste...
In Togo, over 11,200 micro-businesses were officially created by young entrepreneurs over the past year. The figure, disclosed by the Ministry of Grassroots Development and youth employment, is up by 20% compared to 2020 ( 9,400 microenterprises).
The ministry attributes the growth to several initiatives, among which is an entrepreneurship training program that enrolled 14,351 youth and women....
In the past weekend, the 22 young entrepreneurs selected under the first edition of the Togolese Facility for Acceleration and Innovation (FTAI) program received their prize money. Per head, they received between two (2) and twenty (20) million CFA. Most of the funds came from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) which backed the project with 200 million CFA.
In detail, the winners...
Last Saturday, the organizing committee behind the fourth edition of the Togo Top Impact (TTI) Awards named and rewarded all 17 winners it picked for the year 2021. These winners received 17 awards, including 7 special ones.
Launched four years ago by the National Organization for Integral Development (ONEDI-Togo), the TTI Awards recognizes men, women, youth, organizations, and businesses...
After imposing heavy sanctions on Mali, ECOWAS heads of state met on Friday to discuss the recent putsch in Burkina Faso, which led to the exit of Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. Unsurprisingly, they decided to suspend Burkina Faso from the sub-regional bodies. It is in this context of tensions between these two Sahel states and ECOWAS that we (Togo First), based on the latest economic data...
The Togolese government plans to spend CFA19 billion on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) this year, official sources revealed. This is 18% of resources allocated to the Ministry of Health (CFA105.4 billion), according to Togo's 2022 appropriation bill.
The announcement comes a few months after the bill establishing universal health coverage (UHC) was adopted. Through the bill’s adoption, the...