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Togo will participate in the upcoming Dubai Expo 2020, scheduled to begin in October. The African country will host three events at the international forum.
The first event, the Economic Day, will take place on December 19, 2021. The other two - the National Day of Togo and the Startups Day - will take place respectively on December 21, 2021, and February 8, 2022.
The three events...
In the next few days, about a 100 farmers cooperatives will benefit from the support of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to get officially registered.
This was announced last Thursday by the UN body which stated it would provide €10,000 (about 6.5 million CFA) to these groups. The move, according to the FAO, aims to enable the beneficiaries to establish partnerships with...
Today, May 10, Togo is set to launch a special window where its diaspora can get information related to procedures and steps to follow, to contribute to the country’s development.
This was disclosed by the minister of foreign affairs, Robert Dussey, on Twitter at the end of last week. Alongside the launch of this window, the action plan to boost the participation of the diaspora in the...
"The export of scrap metal and ferrous by-products collected within the Togolese national territory is suspended until further notice.” The announcement was made via a joint statement of the minister of trade, investment, and the minister of economy.
The recently-initialed measure should enable the various players in the iron processing industry to get more supplies, on the local...
Togolese car dealer Diwa International has increased its equity to more than CFA750 million, after raising its capital by over CFA500 million.
According to our sources, Jonas Daou’s company issued 55,150 new shares with a nominal value of CFA10,000, fully subscribed and paid in cash. This should allow the firm which partnered a few months ago with Morris Garage (MG) to better...
In line with efforts to become a digital hub by 2025, Togo plans to implement an e-ecommerce development strategy backed by a five-year project going from 2022 to 2027.
To this end, the authorities are carrying a study to assess the e-commerce sector in Togo, and determine what is needed for the strategy to succeed.
The move takes place as the country tries to democratize...
The West Africa-focused investment management and advisory firm, Brightmore Capital, will support the K-pital Race program recently launched by the Centre Urbain de Business et d’Entreprenariat (CUBE) and 20 other African incubators.
Based in Dakar and Abidjan, Brightmore Capital, which specializes in impact investing, “will intervene in the selection, capacity building and...
In the next few days, the five modern cassava flour (gari) production units projected in the Vo prefecture will be operational. The announcement was made last week by the Shared-risk Agricultural Financing Incentive Mechanism (MIFA) which is behind the project.
“The gari factories in the VO prefecture will soon be operational. The machines have finally arrived and are being installed in...
The Urban Center for Business and Entrepreneurship (CUBE) announced that from September 13 to 18, 2021, the city of Aneho would host the sixth edition of the AGAU RÂ meetings. The event, which didn’t take place in 2020 as initially planned (due to the pandemic), will be officially launched on May 8, via a webinar.
Called K-pital - Race, the coming edition, more than previous ones, should be...
A new legislative framework was adopted in Togo to boost the practice of physical activities. Last Tuesday, the parliament passed a bill setting new rules for organizing, developing, and promoting these activities.
The new regulation, which has 67 articles, is “an updated version of the 2011 charter which became fully obsolete given the country’s new ambitions.” Among other changes, it...
After Togo and Benin, Gozem, the Lomé-based Uber-like startup, is now operational in Gabon, Libreville.
“We are very pleased to start our operations in Gabon with a simplified, safer and more convenient cab booking solution. We are confident that our innovation in the Gabonese market will create real value for passengers and drivers. Very soon, we will expand our range of services in...
Geospatial and demographic data analyzed by predictive algorithms enabled the Togolese government to refine targeting and optimize the second phase of its Novissi cash transfer program, supported by the international NGO GiveDirectly.
AI used to support Novissi
Artificial intelligence tools have been made available by the World Bank, through the International Development Association (IDA)...
Only a few days after getting the Gnassingbé Eyadéma International Airport (AIGE) accreditation, for its level of security and safety being higher than the world average, Togo is considering a new project to improve the existing regulatory framework.
According to Akodah Ayewouadan, one of the spokespersons for the Togolese government, this new project is the result of an audit that praised the...
The African and Malagasy Robusta Coffee Agency (ACRAM) will open its training center, the Acram Coffee Academy.
This was decided during the Agency’s 9th ordinary general assembly recently held in Lomé. The talks focused mostly on ways to revamp the Robusta coffee industry in Africa, as it greatly suffered from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Overall, “the resolutions adopted at...
Togo’s minister of finance, Sani Yaya, ended his mandate as chairman of the Board of Governors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID). He has been replaced by Benin’s minister of finance, Romuald Wadagni.
Yaya was appointed as president of the Board a year ago amid the rise of Covid-19 in the region, and as ECOWAS member States were implementing efforts to support...
At the end of last week, Togo signed the statute of the Labor Center of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), at the latter’s headquarters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The document was signed by Abdel Nasser Fofana, interim general consul in Togo, in the presence of OIC’s secretary-general, Youssef bin Ahmed Al-Otharimeen, and the Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Affairs, Ahmed...