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In Togo, SOLEVA, the firm in charge of the CIZO project with BBOXX, will start its activities in the country in Q2 2019, thus initiating its 12-month pilot phase on the project.
In line with its specifications for the contract, SOLEVA and its US partner Greenlight Planet should “sell and distribute at least 300,000 of Greenlight’s Sun King® solar systems in the next five years,...
The WAEMU has developed a program supporting top-class training and research within the community, in line with its human resources development objectives.
For the 2019-2020 edition of this program, WAEMU launched a call for applications to preselect those who will benefit from the support which lasts 12 months. The latter can neither be prolonged, postponed nor renewed.
This year, the...
Agbewonou Darwin Yawovi recently won the 2019 Total Startupper of the Year contest, landing a prize of CFA8.2 million. The youth owes his victory to his project, SOS System which is a rescue app that manages disasters. The app has a geolocalization and alert system.
The second winner is Clifford Plastid Hoglonou whose project is Alcoford Corporation, specialized in bioethanol production. Kodjo...
All rural arable land owned by private entities or individuals must be valorized or they will be trusted to any investor who legally requests to do so.
Last Wednesday, this decision was adopted in a decree passed by the council of ministers held that day. According to the decree, “in the event a land is passed from one owner to another that requested to valorize it, the new owner must use the...
Invited by Chinese e-trade giant Alibaba, 12 officials from Togo’s ministries and institutions will be in Hangzhou in April for a 3-day workshop on digital economy.
Organized by Alibaba Business School, this workshop is part of the tech behemoth’s “New economy workshop” programme. The latter aims to create a global ecosystem enabling populations to fully tap into opportunities available...
Togo’s top 100 most dynamic companies will be revealed next March 16, in Lomé. This will be during the “Gala des 100 entreprises les plus dynamiques du Togo” which will be attended by the country’s best businessmen and women.
The event is organized by Eco Finance Entreprises and the top 100 firms were selected based on four criteria used to conduct a performance assessment.
The...
In Togo, a new version of commerce registry and mobile credit database (RCCM) will be released online by the end of March 2019. This was revealed at a workshop on the platform’s update last January.
The database should help the public freely access reliable information relating to their commercial partners’ legal and financial situation, but also their prior commitments.
In effect, the RCCM...
On Feb 27, 2019, the board of Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved a €100 million financing for the BOAD to boost clean power utilization across the WAEMU, sources close to the regional bank revealed.
In effect, the monies will be used to implement the FP105 project in WAEMU’s six countries. The latter aim at de-carbonizing their energy mix and improving access to clean energy.
Through...
The West African Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) submitted for validation a feasibility study for the creation of clean power development program in Togo. This was during a meeting held on Feb 27, which pooled academics, experts, and administrative authorities.
The end of the validation session comes a year after the process itself began. Dr Kokou Kouami, Head of...
It is now possible to refer to commercial courts via lawyers and bailiffs, as well as pay enrolment fees online via Flooz and Tmoney. This was disclosed by Kossi Kutuhun, President of Lomé’s Court of Instance, in an ordinance dated January 31, 2019.
“The concerned fees can now be paid online on the platform handling commercial disputes, legally,” the judge said. Launched in 2015, this...
The Ecobank foundation is sponsoring the “Sembène Ousmane” award, valued at CFA5 billion, at the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) which will end next March 2.
The foundation of the Lomé-based banking group, through the move, supports African film industry as it tries to emerge.
Carl Manlan, Director of Operations of the institution commented on the...
The Dankpen and Doufelgou prefectures, located in the Kara region (more than 450km north of Lomé) now have 79km of rehabilitated rural roads and a new prefectural market.
The infrastructures built under the Community Development Emergency Program (PUDC) were delivered last Wednesday, in the presence of President Faure Gnassingbé.
Financed by Japan (CFA470 million), the new market has modern...
MIFA SA plans on putting in place a database listing the various actors engaged in Togo’s agricultural sector. This aims at structuring agricultural value chains and comes after the listing of investors involved in the scheme at the end of 2018.
Interested actors are thus urged to express their desire to be listed in the database, via mail or by sending their details to the secretariat of MIFA...
A new mini solar power plant has been developed in Kountoum, 415km north of Lomé, in the Bassar prefecture.
The infrastructure which has a low tension small distribution network, will power public lighting system.
It was commissioned Feb 26 under the high patronage of President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé. This project falls under the government’s strategy to boost access to power in rural...
Togolese populations were recently introduced to the new code on private and state-owned land. This was on the sidelines of the civil society forum on land held last Tuesday, in Atakpamé (161km north east of Lomé).
Participants learned about the new regulation, in order to prevent future land conflicts and improve land management in the country.
The meeting, its second edition, is...
Two and a half years since its launch, the Community Development Emergency Programme (PUDC) helped 96,000 people living in the Maritime and Savanes regions gain access to solar power, via multipurpose platforms.
The scheme’s beneficiaries are spread across 16 localities of the two regions.
Providing modern power services to the populations of these localities, to women especially, helped them...