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After Niger and Burkina Faso, Togo also recently received the World Bank’s support for the Lomé-Ouagadougou-Niamey economic corridor project. Last Friday, Sani Yaya, Togo’s minister of finance, and Coralie Gevers, chief of operations World Bank in Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea, signed a financing agreement for $120 million (around CFA68 billion).
The signing was chaired by...
Presently in Togo on an official visit, Ousmane Diagana, Vice President of World Bank for Central and West Africa, was at the Lomé Data Center - the country’s first-tier III-certified data center - on Oct. 29.
Diagana visited the facility, among others, with Cina Lawson, the Togolese Minister of the digital economy, Coralie Gevers, the World Bank’s chief of operations in Côte d’Ivoire,...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has disbursed CFA35 million to support 10 sports associations and three federations. The beneficiaries won a call for projects launched by the Autonomous District of Grand Lomé (DAGL).
Each of the associations will get CFA2 million while the federations will equally share CFA15 million. The funds will be used to carry out sports initiatives that foster good...
It is with great pride that PIA announces its partnership with the MAERSK LINE group, the world's largest shipping company.
MAERSK will put its expertise and all of its means at the service of the Dry Port of PIA.
This is a great success for the whole PIA team but also for TOGO, for which this dry port will be a huge asset, in addition to all the industries being set up on the...
In Togo, the project to provide basic health services of quality, under the universal health coverage target, was started yesterday, Oct. 28. The project was launched by the PM Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe, and the World Bank’s Vice President for Central and West Africa, Ousmane Diagana, who is currently in Togo.
Financed by the World Bank ($70 million), this project aims to improve access to basic...
The Togolese Head of State, Faure Gnassingbé, and the United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Deputy Minister, Sheikh Shakhbout Ben Nahyan Al-Nahyan, met yesterday, Oct. 28. Notably, they discussed ways to boost the cooperation between their respective countries.
The talks, according to the Togolese Presidency, focused mostly on investments, agriculture, power, and...
The Togolese minister of maritime economy, Edem Kokou Tengué, presented during the latest council of ministers held on Oct. 27, the main functionalities of the single desk for non-tax revenues generated in the sector he oversees.
The goal of the presentation was to get the government’s approval to start drawing the draft bill that will help set up the desk.
According to the council,...
Most of the concentrated tomato imported into Togo contains too much lead and could harm consumers, according to the Togolese Association of Consumers (TAC) and the Organization for Food and Local Development (OADEL).
The two entities released, in the framework of the ongoing consuming local month, results of studies they carried out in partnership with the Togolese Institute for Agricultural...
Ousmane Diagana, the World Bank’s Vice President for West and Central Africa, arrived in Lomé yesterday, Oct. 27. The Bretton Woods executive, whose visit was announced earlier this week, was welcomed in the Togolese capital by the country’s minister of economy and finance, Sani Yaya, and the Secretary-General of the Presidency, Sandra Ablamba Johnson.
“Happy to have landed in Lomé! This...
Uber-like startup Gozem plans to expand to Cameroon. The new markets add to Togo, Benin, and Gabon.
“We plan to launch our super application in Cameroon soon,” said Gozem. The company hence seeks a country manager in Cameroon.
They are looking for “a leader to establish Gozem in this new country, someone who will carry out the operations and implementation strategy,”...
Two coffee kiosks were inaugurated last Tuesday in Lomé, by the minister of trade, industry and local consumption, Kodjo Adédzé.
The kiosks are located respectively at the ministry of trade and the ministry of agriculture. Specifically, they will serve populations and encourage them to integrate local coffee into their diet, and consequently improve the revenues and livelihoods of coffee...
Lomé is hosting a 3-day workshop to assess the technical cooperation between Togo and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The meeting, started yesterday, regroups academics, government officials, and project leaders who will review all areas of the 9-year cooperation between the two parties, such as health, agriculture, environment, and energy.
Besides reviewing the cooperation,...
Togo received 702,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines yesterday, October 26. The vaccines were supplied as part of the Covax initiative.
The stock was received by the minister of health, Prof. Mijiyawa, at the Lomé airport, in the presence of Col. Djibril Mohaman, head of the national team in charge of countering the Covid-19 (CNGR), and Covax members, including the WHO and Unicef representatives,...
The World Bank’s Vice President for Central and West Africa, Ousmane Diagana, will be in Lomé from October 27 to 31. The Bretton Woods institution announced the visit in a statement published on October 25.
This is the first time that the Mauritanian executive comes to Togo. From there, Diagana, who has been overseeing 22 countries in West and Central Africa since July 2020, will go to...
Togo is the fifth-best in Africa, in terms of economic governance efficacy, despite the lingering pandemic. The country was ranked by the World Bank, in its latest Africa’s Pulse report released on Oct. 6.
According to the report which assesses how African countries adapt to climate change and economic transformation, “in Togo, the measures deployed to tackle the pandemic represent...
The Lomé-based pan-African bank Ecobank has secured a $60 million loan from a consortium led by PROPARCO, the AFD’s arm dedicated to the private sector. The group will use the money to support its 33 subsidiaries across Africa.
Besides PROPARCO which provided $35 million, other members of the consortium include the Norwegian fund Norfund and DEG (a subsidiary of the German...