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The government of Togo has established an office especially for promoting road safety, according to a statement issued by the ministers’ council on March 27, 2022. The National Road Safety Office (ONSR), as it is called, has a mission to “study, research, and implement all measures that could improve the safety of road users,” the statement reads.
The measures include preventing accidents,...
The Tinga Fund, set up to boost access to electricity in Togo, will enter its pilot phase on April 1, 2022. The fund, which has a seed capital of CFA3 billion, was presented by Mila Aziable, minister of energy and mines, at the last Council of Ministers held on March 25.
The pilot phase of the facility will extend over nine months, deployed in the regions of Kara and Savanes. "The fund will...
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) and the Togolese Ministry of Sports and Leisure inked on March 24, 2022, a partnership framework agreement, through which both parties commit to promoting sports in schools and universities.
The convention, signed by Lidi Bessi-Kama, Minister of Sports, and Serge Ekué, President of BOAD, according to the Togolese official, aligns with his ministry’s...
K-Pital Invest, the Togolese fundraising platform set up by the Centre Urbain de Business et d'Entrepreneur (CUBE), an incubator based in Lomé, has been picked to participate in the BM Prime Capital Pitch Competition. The latter is a contest organized by New York-based venture capitalist BM Prime. It targets startups that operate in French-speaking Africa.
“We are pleased to announce that our...
The Togolese Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo is the new Director-General of the International Labour Office (ILO). He was appointed on Friday, March 25, 2022, by the Governing Body of the institution. The appointment took place during a meeting in Geneva.
Houngbo, who currently heads the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), beat the French Muriel Penicaud in the second round of the...
Last Tuesday, Togolese deputies voted, unanimously, for Togo's adhesion to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, on the conservation and management of fish stocks.
The law gives States rights to manage fisheries resources, situated within and beyond the exclusive economic zones.
“Togo aims to practice responsible fishing espousing the trilogy of conservation, sustainable...
In Togo, the Ministry of Agriculture announced on March 24, 2022, that fertilizers would be subsidized during the 2022-2023 agricultural season. This is despite the global surge in input costs caused by the war in Ukraine.
“The government, aware of the issues and objectives it aims to achieve through its roadmap 2020-2025, particularly concerning improving yields and agricultural productivity,...
In Togo, the Banm Lab, a startup incubator based in Dapaong (650 km from Lomé), is opening the recruitment of young project holders for its second cohort of incubates.
"Registrations are open until April 3rd for the recruitment of the second cohort of young entrepreneurs wishing to master the contours of the creation and management of a business. Shortly, for this business creation...
Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé received this Wednesday in Lomé, at the opening of the summit on cybersecurity, the African champion of cybersecurity award.
"I am very humbled to receive this award because it is rare to receive an award before the start of the mission. I assure you of the achievement of the mission assigned to me," said the Togolese leader who added that this...
Seventeen (17) African heads of state and government have confirmed that they will attend Africa’s first summit on cybersecurity that will open in Lomé on March 23, 2022. The summit’s organizers, in addition to disclosing this information, said more than 700 participants, including the private sector and civil society leaders, have registered to take part in this event.
At the Lomé...
Importing electric or hybrid vehicles or converted thermal vehicles must now be approved by the government, from the ministries of environment and trade to be specific. Disclosed by the Togolese Revenue Office (OTR), the measure aligns with new provisions taken by the government.
The Commissioner-General of the OTR announced in a recent official note that “for the completion of the formalities...
On March 10t, the World Trade Organization (WTO) launched a project to support eight African countries, including Togo, in the operationalization of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
Backed by the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF), the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), the project...
In an interview with We Are Tech Africa, a media outlet specializing in Tech in Africa, Emmanuel Cheriet, General Manager of Orange Cyberdefense for the Maghreb and West Africa, stressed the need for the continent to integrate the cybersecurity by design approach into the development of connectivity networks.
Cyberdefense specialist Emmanuel Cheriet believes that States and companies in Africa...
Africa’s first cybersecurity summit will be held in Lomé this week, on March 23 and 24. Announced months ago, the summit was postponed because of the pandemic.
Co-organized by the Togolese Republic and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the event will gather several African officials, and private actors operating in the IT security sector. They will discuss many...
Togo's National Food Security Agency (ANSAT) launched last weekend a grain purchase operation from producers in various localities. The purchase, we learn, will allow the agency to boost the existing food security stock and respond more effectively to populations’ needs.
For the first phase of the operation, the agency headed by Ouro-Koura Agadazi was in the Plateaux region where it bought 15t...
Last Friday, Togo completed its fifth issue on the Umoa-securities market this year: it raised CFA30 billion. For the operation, Lomé issued fungible treasury bonds with a nominal value of 10,000 FCFA, a maturity period of five years, and a fixed interest rate of 5.6% per annum.
According to the report released by the Umoa-securities agency, more than 100 billion FCFA were...