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At last, planes which have been stuck for months on the tarmac of the Airport of Lomé due to anti-Covid 19 measures will be allowed to take off again, as of August 1.
Indeed, the Togolese government released on July 30 a press statement indicating that both domestic and international flights would resume. “Measures have been taken to guarantee, for the safety of air travelers and populations,...
Togo Terminal (TT) wants to digitize all container billing operations at the Port of Lomé.
The Togolese subsidiary of Bolloré Transports & Logistics, in charge of handling, announces that very soon it will launch the online invoicing of import containers in "unloading at the Terminal" mode and e-invoicing of export containers. This comes after having completed the 1st phase - making online...
Launched on July 28th, the Yolim digital lending platform for Togolese farmers has already mobilized over FCFA5.5 billion (around $10 million).
Every farmer registered on the platform has access to a credit e-wallet of FCFA96,000 which can be used to purchase fertilizers, pesticides, or rent tractors. According to the minister of the digital industry, Cina Lawson, more than 57,000...
Fifty million Euros (XOF38.2 billion). That is the amount of a loan the Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) just received from the French Development Agency (AFD) to support sustainable economic transition within the community.
The financing agreement was signed between the two parties on July 28, at the EBID’s headquarters in Lomé.
Through the facility, the EBID...
Two Togolese, Kako Nubukpo, and Pascal Agboyibor were featured in Jeune Afrique’s recent top 100 most influential Africans.
The first, Prof. Nubukpo, is the dean of the Faculty of economics and management at the University of Lomé and a former Togolese minister of planning. The scholar who ranked 53rd on the media’s index is well-known by the press for his views on the CFA. In West...
Yesterday, July 27th, the University of Lomé (UL) and Cimtogo signed a partnership under which the former will develop industrial courses to meet the demand of the cement market, while the latter is to take as interns engineers and researchers who graduate from the academy.
As part of the win-win partnership, the UL will also assist the company in researching alternative materials that...
For the second time, Togo will try to raise FCFA70 billion by issuing covid-19 bonds on the regional financial market. This is after garnering FCFA108 billion by recently issuing the same bonds.
The proceeds of the new issuance will fill the gap in public treasury caused by the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The issuance of the bonds -fungible treasury bonds- which have a nominal...
In the 2020-2021 agricultural campaign, the State will distribute 15,000 irrigation kits starting from November this year. This should guarantee food and nutritional security for rural households, by considerably boosting the country’s agricultural output.
The equipment should indeed enable rural farmers cultivate their crops off-season. Its provision falls under the government’s...
“From now on, the billing of import container delivery will be done only online.” The information was disclosed by Togo Terminal, a subsidiary of Bolloré Transports & Logistics in Togo.
While urging economic operators who are yet to have created their online account for import transactions, Togo Terminal emphasized that no direct delivery of import containers would be processed at...
Togo’s public procurement regulatory organ (ARMP) will build in Lomé a center to provide training related to public contracts.
The project aims at fostering economic performance by efficiently managing public procurements, and enhance skill development relative to the procurements.
The upcoming training centre will offer certified courses in various areas related to public...
This year, Togo will receive about XOF3 billion from the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). The latter is a US security scheme that aims to reinforce peace worldwide (through the United Nations).
The funds will benefit the army’s training centre for peace operations in Lomé. In detail, about $1.6 million will improve the centre’s facilities, $3.3 million will be...
Yesterday, the European Union provided Togo XOF4.9 billion in support of its State budget.
The related ceremony took place between Bruno Hanses, chargé d’affaires of the EU delegation, and Demba Ayaovi Tignokpa, the minister of development planning and cooperation.
It should be noted that earlier in June, the first facility also aimed at supporting Togo’s state budget was injected by...
Togolese civil society organizations (OSC) will receive training to better monitor the government’s actions relative to the budget.
This program is led by the Projet d’Appui à la Gouvernance Economique (Economic Governance Support Project -PAGE). The latter has launched a tender that closes on August 4, 2020, to hire an international individual consultant who will enhance capacities...
During the first half of 2020, more than 63,000 L of smuggled fuel was seized by Togolese security forces. This was disclosed in a recent report released by the ministry of security and civil protection.
Over the same period, 3,630 kg of cannabis, 0.7 kg of cocaine, 1.32kg of Tramadol (which has psychotropic effects), nearly 80,000 kg of illegal drugs, more than 3,000 fake guns, and...
The Ecowas permanent representative in Togo, Dr. Garba Lampo, has reached the end of his five-year mandate. The Nigerien diplomat was received yesterday by the prime minister with whom he reviewed the country’s performances and key projects such as the national development plan or PND.
Regarding the plan, Lampo declared: “The institutional facility for macroeconomic development put in...
The University of Lomé (U.L) and the Public Markets Regulatory Authority (ARMP) will hold on December 8, 2020, a forum on “the fight against corruption, ethics, and deontology in public administrations.”
During the conference, participants will focus on assessing mechanisms put in place to boost ethics and tackle corruption in WAEMU states, as well as how efficient they are. In this...