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A kilogram of 1st-grade seed cotton will be sold to farmers at CFA300 in the 2022-2023 season, 13% more than in the last season (CFA265). As for 2nd-grade seed cotton, it will be sold at CFA280 /kg or 24% more than during the 2021-2022 season.
The updates were in an official note that the Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT) sent to regional directors of agricultural production on...
Last year, the net result of the WAEMU Regional Mortgage Refinancing Company (CRRH) was 1.401 billion, up 7.1% compared to 2020 (CFA1.308 billion).
The figure was disclosed during the company’s 11th ordinary general assembly, held online last month. The assembly approved CRRH’s results for 2021 and allocated all its revenues to reserves and retained earnings.
Based on this...
Faure Gnassingbé, the Togolese President, is currently in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where he is attending the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The session began today, May 9th.
The leaders present will discuss the prospects of SDG 15 which aims to preserve and restore the earth's ecosystem. They will...
The National Identification Agency of Togo (ANID) has been carrying out a sensitization campaign in the Savanes region for some days now. This campaign, according to well-informed sources, is part of the biometric identification project initiated by the government, in line with its 2020-2025 development roadmap.
Throughout the campaign, prefects, mayors, administration workers, actors of the...
In Togo, a kilogram of robusta coffee and cocoa are being sold at CFA830 and CFA930, respectively. The prices were set by the Coffee and Cocoa Sectors Coordinating Committee (CCFCC) for the period going from May 1 to 15, 2022.
They are respectively up by 1.8% and 1.6% compared to prices applied in the period from April 13 to April 30.
The revision, according to the CCFCC, was made...
In its eight years of activity, the National Fund for Inclusive Finance (FNFI) of Togo has loaned over CFA100 billion to people who cannot get access to traditional financing services. The figure, updated on March 31, 2022, was disclosed a few days ago by Mazamesso Assih, the minister in charge of financial inclusion and the informal sector.
The money was shared between more than 1.7 million...
On May 5th, 2022, Blaise Ahwantchede, Afrik Créances’ boss, revealed that the banking and non-banking intermediate company plans to set up the first support fund and single window for SMEs and SMIs (GURFI) active in the West African region. He announced this at the launch of the International Forum for Innovation and Digital Technologies (FONI) in Lomé.
In the presence of...
The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has five new safety inspectors onboard. The newcomers were sworn in last Friday, April 6, at the Palais de Justice in Lomé.
Specializing in rescue services and firefighting aircraft, the inspectors have committed to making air navigation safer in Togo and will contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of laws on civil...
Thousands of businesspeople–men and women–have been crossing the country's land borders with their goods, but until now they couldn’t denounce the daily issues hampering their activities, said Coami Sedolo Tamegnon, President of Togo’s Employers’ Council (CNP-Togo), and VP and also the Chairman of the Union of Industrial Importers and Exporters of Togo (SCIMPEXTO), Yiva...
On Wednesday 4, 2022, the Togolese government said it would reinforce the legal framework governing public procurement. This was during the council of ministers.
On the occasion, the ministers proceeded to a first read of the bill on the new public procurement code.
According to the council’s statement, the new code sets and details rules that ensure the preparation, provision,...
Togo lost 26 places in the latest press freedom ranking of the French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The significant drop comes amidst “a two-fold increase in polarization amplified by information chaos” in the report which assesses the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories.
The West African country was ranked 100 over 180 with a score of 57.17 this year, thus dropping...
In Togo, Togocel and Moov Africa’s “consumers are still paying a lot for entry-level services”. This was disclosed on May 4, 2022, by the country’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP), which, a few months earlier, had recommended a tariff overhaul.
According to a statement from the regulator, a copy of which was obtained by Togo First, the two phone...
Opened last August, the call for tenders for the construction of a solar photovoltaic power plant to supply the Lomé airport has just been relaunched, "resized" by the Société aéroportuaire de Lomé-Tokoin (SALT), after feasibility studies.
A notice of prequalification was issued last month, for recruiting the firm that will finance, build and operate the 1.8 MW...
The Togolese ministry of agriculture and the Teolis Foundation officially launched on May 3, 2022, the “Stations Météos Togo” project. This is a project that will provide weather data to farmers across the country.
Concretely, all over the country, digital stations will be set up to monitor key indicators that influence agricultural cycles.
These digital stations collect, every five...
Under the supervision of the Ministry of Health of Togo, the Industrial Platform of Adétikopé (PIA) launched on April 4, 2022, a campaign for free cataract surgery covering all the regions of Togo. The program, "Vision for All", is fully initiated and financed by ARISE IIP/PIA, and aims to provide ophthalmological treatment to the entire Togolese population.
In effect, the beneficiaries will...
Last Friday, Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General AfCFTA, met with Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbe. On the occasion, he presented the leader with a project aimed at digitizing custom procedures along the Abidjan-Lagos corridor.
"We have already secured the funds needed to achieve this agenda. Currently, we are ready to work with ECOWAS and the Togolese government. The thing now is to see to what...