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In Togo, the youth employment director, Anala Telata, pled for the extension of the Youth Insertion and Employment Support Project in Promising Sectors (PAIEJ-SP) to transports, logistics and mechanization.
Doing so will, according to Telata, enable professional insertion of some youths and optimize conditions needed to achieve the goals of PAIEJ-SP in regards to job creation.
Actually,...
In the WAEMU, 75% of adults should have access to appropriate and cheap financial services over the next five years. The region’s central bank, BCEAO, is doing everything to achieve this objective.
In Togo, on the sidelines of the financial inclusion week, Kossi Tenou, national director of the BCEAO, declared: “Our regional financial inclusion strategy mainly aims at ensuring, over the next...
Last Monday in Lomé, the construction of Togo’s first data processing and business incubation center began.
Carrier Hotel is a data center that provides businesses (both big and SMEs) a space with access to electricity and a cooling system where they can store their network equipment and servers. According to Togolese authorities, the infrastructure is a tool that perfectly responds to the...
Over the past 11 months, Togo’s government paid back to private firms CFA55 billion of arrears it owed them. According to the authorities, this aligns with a huge domestic debt clearance program.
The program’s primary goal is to increase private sector’s investment capacity as the sector is the driver of the national development plan (PND). Indeed, private sector should contribute 65% of...
On Monday, December 3, Togo officially joined the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a multilateral institution that finances infrastructure development in Africa.
The nation is the twentieth across the whole continent to join the organization. In West Africa however, it is the twelfth and comes after Nigeria, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, Guinea, Chad, Cabo Verde, Benin...
Togo.tg is the new open data website launched by the Togolese government.
The portal should enable free access to data related to public institutions, ministries, public services, etc.
Commenting on the launch, Cina Lawson, minister of posts and digital economy said: “Towards its modernization, Togo proceeded to the remodeling of its digital ecosystem and developed a single institutional...
Togo exported 15,000 metric tons (Mt) of cashew nuts during the 2018 agricultural campaign. This was disclosed by Robert Sedjro, head of cashew exporters. Compared to the previous season’s output (12,000 Mt), this year’s exports are up by about 3,000 Mt.
While the current output meets forecast announced by the N’kalo magazine, it should not hide the fact that “Togo is the least cashew...
Marc Ably-Bidamon, Togo’s minister of energy, is the new president of the ministers’ committee steering the West African Gas Pipeline Project. The official was appointed the position last week, on the sidelines of the 18th meeting of the committee, for a one-year mandate.
Over the period, Togo should, with its neighbors, launch initiatives to protect subsea gas pipelines and conclude...
For an African citizen, Togo is the third country which is easiest to visit in Africa. This information was disclosed by AfDB’s 2018 Africa Visa Openness Index.
Like in all ECOWAS countries, West African citizens can visit Togo without a visa. Besides these countries, Togo provides visa-on-arrival to non-ECOWAS African citizens. This includes about 40 nations.
Topping the AfDB’s index...
Yesterday, Nov 29, the minister of trade and private sector promotion, Bernadette Legzim-Balouki, inaugurated two new reservoirs of Société Togolaise d’Entreposage (Togo’s Storage Society).
The reservoirs (tank n°5 and tank n°1) which cost two billion CFA, and meet international safety and environmental standards, have a total capacity of 4,400 m3. “They will be used to store super...
Jun Hao Mining, a mining firm holding a gold exploitation license in the Bouzalo-Alombé area, in the Tchaoudjo prefecture, in Togo’s Central region, was asked to stop all activities at the site until further notice.
Back in January 2018, the firm was allowed by decree to exploit the mine but “unfortunately, exploration works at the site sparked conflicts between your company and the people...
To date, AgriPME, the e-wallet for farmers, has 272,418 users. Considering that the platform was launched only two years ago, this is quite an impressive number. A feat that is the fruit of efficient sensitization campaigns carried out by firms all over the country.
Besides the campaigns, the government’s incentive mechanism for agricultural financing (MIFA), launched less than a year ago,...
Soon, more than 300 localities in Togo will have access to electricity in the framework of the rural electrification project financed by India and the Islamic Development Bank.
On November 29, 2018, authorities assisted in the project’s launch in two villages situated in the Vo prefecture (about 80km north of Lomé).
According to the ministry of energy, the goal of this “huge and ambitious...
Togo was ranked 33rd on the 2018 Climatescope released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). This is the first time the West African nation is featured in the global clean energy promotion rankings.
In Africa, Togo closes the Top 10. In the WAEMU, only Senegal, 13th worldwide and second in Africa, is better ranked. In ECOWAS, Senegal and Nigeria (14th worldwide and 3rd in...
Togo’s minister of digital economy and posts, Cina Lawson, announced this Wednesday that the first stone of the Carrier Hotel in Lomé will be laid on December 3, 2018.
The building aims to support the country’s ambitions regarding digital economy. It results from a public-partnership agreement (PPA) and will, according to the minister, be “a housing and co-rental space, neutral and open,...
On Wednesday, Gblainvié, a community situated in the Zio prefecture, about 40 km from Lomé, was connected to the country’s power grid. This was done in the presence of the minister of energy.
Works to connect the locality cost the government nearly CFA48 million.
In detail, the project involved expanding the medium tension network by 2.1 km and the low tension network by 1.7 km. In...