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Togo’s main exports in Q1 2019 were Burkina Faso, Benin and India, with the first leading the pace.
Indeed, over the year’s first three months, 17.4% of the country’s exports, valued at XOF20.1 billion, were sent to its northern neighbor. This is slightly lower than the previous year, over the same period, knowingly 19% of Togolese exports (amounting to XOF21.1 billion).
Burkina Faso...
In Togo, public mobile operator Togocel has teamed up with IPNET Institute of Technology, a local ICT school, to train science students till next 30 August.
The training will focus of Python language and benefit 66 students overall (33 in Lomé and 33 in Kara). In Lomé, the training takes place at the headquarters of IPNET and in Kara it does at the Eyadéma military High School of...
After jointly building the Abatchang agricultural modern farm (in the central region of Togo), Togo and Egypt want to further strengthen their partnership in the agricultural sector.
On a five-day mission in Cairo, a Togolese delegation led by the president of Togolese parliament, Yawa Tsègan Dzigbodi, laid the founding stones for this stronger relation.
On this occasion, the Togolese...
In Togo, the soybeans sector employed nearly 300,000 people, directly and indirectly, in 2018 according to the Office of Agricultural Statistics, Information and Documentation (DSID).
With about 67,000 ha dedicated to this crop, about 38% of land is used to cultivate leguminous crops in Togo. Soybeans is the third most cultivated leguminous crop in the country and it benefits 193,462...
Over the past few years, Togo has improved significantly in regards to its socioeconomic policies and institutional framework. This was disclosed in the World Bank’s latest Country Policy and Institutional Assessment in Africa report (CPIA).
Togo improves while Africa stagnates
While other countries on the continent stagnate, Togo has again, after reaching the average in sub-Saharan Africa...
From October 22 to 27, 2019, Lomé will host the second edition of the African Building Trade Show (Afribat). The event is the fruit of a partnership between the Sfax chamber of trade and industry (CCIS) of Tunisia, and the chamber of trade and industry of Togo (CCIT).
Announced last March by Germain Mèba, president of the CCIT, this edition should gather about 10,000 participants, actors of...
President Faure Gnassingbé arrived in Tokyo on August 25 where he will take part in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VII). The latter will commence on Aug 28 and end Aug 30, in Yokohama.
“I will meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and use this opportunity to discuss with some Japanese investors and business actors,” declared the Togolese leader. At...
Last Thursday, Togo’s government launched an operation to mark firearms of its security forces at the headquarters of national police. This falls under the project to improve physical security, stock and marking management, and getting rid of useless weapons.
The move occurs in a context where security is presently jeopardized in the region, by a growing transnational criminality rate,...
In Q1 2019, exports from Togo rose by 33% in volume compared to the same period in 2018. In detail, they went from 616,408.3 tons last year to 820,156.2 tons.
In parallel, the country’s Free on Board exports were valued at XOF115.6 billion, up 4.4% compared to Q1 2018.
During the first three months of this year, phosphate products were the most exported in the country, followed by...
Nigeria wants to build a power transmission line that connects it to eight other West African nations, including Togo, according to Ecofin Agency.
“We will have a 330kV line going from Northern Nigeria to Benin, Togo, Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire”, said Mohammed Gur Usman, Executive Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria.
“Besides this infrastructure, another line with similar...
Yesterday, August 22, the eighth edition of the Adjafi Fair for Young Entrepreneurs opened in Lomé. This year’s edition is themed: “Social Security for an Inclusive Growth of Young African Entrepreneurs.”
With about 22 exhibition stands to visit, promoters expect more than 200,000 visitors at the fair which will end on September 8, 2019. The event also hosts forums, round tables,...
In Togo, the Miawodo association plans to open a new incubator to foster the development of small companies respecting the environment. This is a project that benefited from a financing of XOF26 million provided by the French embassy.
The age range for interested applicants is 18-30 years and they should live in Lomé or its surroundings. Also, they should operate in the following sectors:...
Vlisco just relaunched in Togo its contest to select young designers aged between 20 to 30 years. This contest aims at “helping these designers in their professional path in the fashion industry, by boosting their skills and enabling them to have their own brand.”
Selected contestants will get €5000 to fund their growth or invest in new equipment and set up their own fashion studio....
In line with its reform optimization strategy, Togo’s ministry of economy and finance will on August 27, proceed to a national review of public finance reforms implemented at end-June 2019.
Ahead of this review, the action plan for public finance management reform is currently being reviewed, in Lomé.
According to Aharh Kpessou Mongo, Permanent Secretary in Charge of Public Finance Reforms,...
At the start of this week, Togo’s ministry of health and public hygiene organized in Lomé a scientific debate on quality control of drugs in ECOWAS States.
This was in line with the 32nd anniversary of the West Africa Health Organization. The latter was created in Lomé, in 1987, to answer issues related to drug quality, and ensure regional coordination relating to health across the...
Last Tuesday, Widezip, a new e-commerce platform was launched in Lomé, Togo.
This is a system that aims to ease online sales of businesses and individuals in the country.
Both the web and app-based platforms list SMEs and SMIs operating in many sectors ; offer online storage service ; sell and buy goods for professionals and individuals, as well as conduct import-export transactions,...