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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...
This year, Togo will allocate CFA4 billion to the Local Authority Support Fund (FACT) in line with its appropriation bill 2022. Compared to 2021, this is 36% lower.
The amount allocated last year was broken down into CFA2.5 billion for projects carried out by the National Agency for Grassroots Development (ANADEB), and around CFA4 billion for the country’s 117 municipal...
The Togolese subsidiary of the Compagnie Financière Africaine (COFINA) will reinforce its financial inclusion policy. This ambition was revealed on Jan 27 by the institution’s MD, Digbé Marcel, during an audience with Prime Minister Victoire Dogbé.
"We will accentuate financial inclusion,” Marcel said, adding that COFINA was open to "supporting and financing the government in its various...
Togo jumped six places in the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released last Tuesday by Transparency International. The West African nation which was 134th out of 180 countries in 2019 and 2020 ranked 128th last year, with a score of 30 over 100 (+1).
Lomé was 29th in Africa and its score was above the average recorded across the sub-Saharan African region - a region which made “no...
GuarantCo has granted Orabank-Togo a CFA14.55 billion guarantee to finance road and telecom development projects in Togo. This is the second time that the subsidiary of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PDG) is providing a guarantee to support infrastructure development in Togo. The first time was in 2019 when the fund helped Togo’s commercial banks support the Kekeli Efficient...
For its third issue on the WAEMU market this year, Togo will seek CFA35 billion. The first two were successful.
The issue - of fungible Treasury bonds - is scheduled to close on Feb 4, according to WAEMU-securities. It is set to mature over 120 months (10 years), has a nominal value of CFA10,000 and an interest rate of 5.9%.
So far into the year, Togo has raised CFA64 billion on the...
Togo and Iran are looking to reinforce their cooperation in the health, agriculture, and energy sectors. The matter was discussed in a recent meeting between some Iranian authorities and a delegation led by the Togolese Minister of foreign affairs, Robert Dussey, who ended a working visit in the middle eastern country last Wednesday.
Concretely, the two countries agreed to hold medical...
Forecast at 58 billion CFA francs at the beginning of 2021, and scaled up to 110 billion CFA francs in October of the same year, the Togolese army budget should reach 105 billion CFA francs in 2022, according to official forecasts.
The forecasts are released in a context where terrorists’ presence keeps growing in the sub-region, nearing the coast. Last year, Togo lost seven peacekeepers...
In line with its 2022 budget law, the government of Togo plans to spend CFA23 billion on clean water supply this year. This is more than it allocated for the same purpose last year, CFA17 billion; this is in a context where the service rate in rural and urban areas are currently estimated at 68% and 58%, respectively.
In the coming months, several drinking water supply projects started in...
Since the last local elections held in June 2019, Togo has been actively engaged in its decentralization process. And while Lomé’s efforts resulted in greater involvement of citizens, many of whom are now ready to take part in their municipalities’ activities and strongly adhere to the principles of good governance, some bridges still need to be built between local elected officials and...