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Last Wednesday, Togo's parliament voted a law ensuring personal data protection. In effect, the law defines the legal and institutional framework to protect this type of information.
"To protect data, we must first have the means to collect them. This requires a regulatory and institutional framework able to identify our citizens in-depth, using biometrics if needed," the deputies declared. "In...
For the second year consecutively, Togo is ranked among the top 10 reformers of the world and the first in Africa, according to the latest Doing Business Report. Indeed the index which ranked 190 countries, based on ease of doing business, places the West African nation at the 97th position. This is a major leap (up 40 places) compared to the previous edition of the report even if that year the...
Faure Gnassingbé is currently in Sochi, Russia, for the first Russia-Africa summit. The two-day event focuses on peace, security and development issues mainly but also looks at economic cooperation between Africa and Russia.
The Togolese leader and his delegation will at the summit showcase Togo's economic potential and assets, to attract Russian investments for the 2018-2022 national...
Togo's minister of mines and energy, Marc Ably-Bidamon should be in Paris on October 24 for the One Planet Summit on climate change.
The summit's participants will reflect on ways to increase mixed financing for low carbon emission and clean energy projects. At the event, the Togolese minister will make a presentation on the "mobilization of financial markets to tackle climate change through...
The 15th general assembly of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity in Agriculture (RUFORUM) which is scheduled for this year will take place in Cape Coast.
The organization launched a contest to allow young West African entrepreneurs active in the agricultural sector to take part.
Overall, 421 applications were received from 12 West African countries. About 10 of these applications were...
On October 23, 2019, the team steering the Youth Employment Support Project (PAIEJ-SP) validated a study establishing a basis to better assess the project's impact across the country. The study was conducted by the National Institute for Statistics, Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED).
"This study provides (us) reliable reference data on all five sectors targeted by the PAIEJ-SJ," said...
Yesterday, the second edition of the AFRIBAT fair was launched at the Togolese Center For Lomé's Fairs and Exhibitions, by the minister of trade and private sector promotion, Kodjo Adedze.
The event, the official declared on this occasion, "aligns with the government's objective to equip the country with quality services and infrastructures for its emergence."
"It will facilitate business...
Togo is the second-best place to be a woman in West Africa according to the latest Women, Peace, and Security Index, a global study assessing women's inclusion in society, their security, and equity in comparison to men. Overall, 167 countries, 51 in Africa, were ranked on the index. Researchers at Georgetown University's Institute for Women, Peace and Security and the Peace Research Institute...
In 2018, Togo was the most bancarized country of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), with a rate of 26.8%. This was revealed in a report recently released by the BCEAO.
Just after Togo came Mali (23.3%), Benin (22.5%) and Côte d'Ivoire (21.6%). At the last position in the ranking was Niger with a bancarization rate of 5.8%.
Let's note the number of adults (15 years old and...
A delegation from the FNFI and the State Secretariat in Charge of Inclusive Finance and Informal Sector is presently in Ouagadougou where it is attending the 4th African Microfinance Week.
The event will be the occasion to discuss the growth of inclusive finance in Africa, and especially on its impacts on sustainable development goals (SDGs).
The two-day meetup takes place once every two years...
Sani Yaya, Togolese minister of economy and finance, ordered the closure of some financial institutions that have been operating "illegally" yet promise high returns.
While the list of the concerned institutions has not yet been released, the minister's statement indicated that they "take money from people against capital securities or placement, promising up to 360% of interest."
The owners of...
The National Federation of Cotton Farmers Associations (FNGPC) recently met with cotton producers to know their concerns and urge them to help the country achieve its 200,000 t output by 2022.
This was during a tour of the FNGPC in the Savanes region. The latter was led by the federation's new chairman, Kouroufei Koussouwè.
Talks at the meeting focused on ways to boost yield per hectare. For...
Last Friday, the government provided Société Générale des Mines (SGM), a subsidiary of Keras Resources, the operating permit for the large scale exploitation of the Nayega manganese deposit (West Kpendjal prefecture). This was announced during a ministers' council held last week.
The decision follows conclusive exploration in the region and an application for the permit by SGM's...
In Togo, the Teolis foundation recently signed a partnership agreement with Potentiel&Talents, a firm specialized in human resource management, under which the latter will provide local startups training, incubation and financing to grow.
In the same line, a subsidy has already been provided to teach a dozen women basic ICT skills, under a project entitled DIG-IT-ALL. In addition, multiple...
Last weekend, Togo's first-ever regulated soybeans (and derivated products) sales campaign was launched in Atakpamé, 161km from Lomé in the Ogou prefecture. The campaign covers the 2019-2020 period.
The set volume to be sold during the period is 78,000 tons. The floor price is CFA189 per Kg. This, in a context where the country's output in the past three years has risen from 24,000 tons to...
Togo's government plans to revise all its existing urban laws and regroup them into a new Code of Urbanism and Construction.
Mainly, the revision covers "all facets of urbanization and construction, as an expression of urban policies. This includes its objectives, methods, resources, tools for urban planning and management, its spatial intervention framework."
The preparation of the new code...