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By mid-2019, 70,000 public workers will get a professional email address with a gouv.tg domain name, credible sources reveal.
This decision falls under a government project to secure and rationalize mail exchanges.
Led by the ministry of posts and digital economy, this project aims at improving the reliability of the exchanges as well as productivity of the administration, while facilitating...
From three, the number of flights served by Brussels Airlines to Lomé increased to five, respectively on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. By the end of this month, the decision will be made official.
In this framework, Pierre-Yves Buysscahert, Director of Brussels Airlines Togo, met on October 11 with Prime Minister, Komi Sélom Klassou.
On this occasion, he informed...
From October 22 to 26, 2018, Geneva (Switzerland) will host the sixth World Investment Forum organizd by the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
More than 5,000 participants from 160 countries, including Togo, are expected at the event where investors and development institutions build partnerships to bridge the current investment deficit. The latter is estimated at...
As announced on the sidelines of Africa Pulse’s launch at the beginning of this month, the World Bank just released in Bali (Indonesia) its new human capital index. This was in the framework of the Bretton Woods institution's annual assemblies.
The new index measures losses in economic productivity incurred by countries that under-invest in their people. “The human capital index reflects the...
On October 9, 2018, Togo’s parliament authorized the government to ratify statutes of the Africa 50-Infrastructure Fund.
These statutes were adopted on July 29, 2015, in Casablanca, Morocco. The institution was established by 22 countries including Togo, and three African financial institutions, namely: Al-Maghrib bank, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Central Bank of West African...
From November 7 to 9, 2018, the African Development Bank (AfDB) will hold in Johannesburg the first edition of the Africa Investment Forum.
This forum is a totally transactional market place dedicated to advancing projects to bankable stages, raising capital, and accelerating the financial closure of deals. It is a platform to attract investors and ease transactions, in order to unlock...
In 2017, real GDP growth in Franc Zone stood at 3.9%, as compared to 3.6% in 2016. This was disclosed in a report released by Banque de France last Monday. According to the report, the increase should be sustained this year.
Last year, growth of economic activity in the Franc Zone was higher than in sub-Saharan Africa. However, France’s central bank indicates, there remain “major gaps...
Yesterday October 9, the Togolese parliament unanimously passed the law authorizing the country to join the African Export-import Bank (Afreximbank). This was during the 2nd plenary of the 2nd ordinary session.
The government thus receives the parliamentary approval for a formal accession to the financial institution. Once this is done, the country will be able to participate in the...
Via its subsidiary, Ethiopian Mozambique airlines, Ethiopian Airways, technical partner and shareholder of Asky, will launch its operations in Mozambique as of December 2018.
To serve the local market in that country, Ethiopian Airways will mobilize part of the fleet of the panafrican company Asky Airlines, whose headquarters is in Lomé, Togo’s capital. To be precise, the company’s services...
Lomé is currently hosting two different workshops on the law related to electronic transactions and its implementation decree. Started October 8, the workshops will close on October 12.
While one of the sessions is open to the public, the other is only open to digital experts. However, both aim to help the public and professionals to better understand challenges related to the law adopted June...
Ahead of the 13th edition of BRVM days to be held 18-19 October in Lomé, executives from the stock market met the press on Monday in the Togolese capital. On this occasion, the executives discussed the upcoming event’s objectives.
The BRVM days fall in line with the exchange’s strategic orientations to be more dynamic.
They are a key milestone of the 2018 campaign, launched to get more...
After a successful first edition, Total Togo launches a second edition of the “Challenge startupper de l’année” (Startup of the year challenge). Through this challenge the French oil firm rewards firms operating in various sectors, thus creating wealth and contributing to Togo’s inclusive and socioeconomic growth, says Frédéric Rivière, Managing Director, Total Togo.
“We will have...
Togolese Richard Laté Lawson-Body is the only African who will participate in the International Postal and Digital Art Project which started last September 15th in Italy and will end October 13th, 2018.
The Togolese will exhibit under the digital category with an artwork entitled “Briser les chaînes de nos cœurs” (Breaking the chains of our hearts, Ed.note), a piece that...
In Togo, the government imposed a new tax on cashew exports during the ministers’ council held last week. The tax’s value was however not disclosed.
With the new tax, Togo is now on par with its neighbors, Benin, Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire. A decision which is to be attributed to a global rise of cashew price.
Indeed, the global surge recorded over the recent years spurred an...
Africa remains WAEMU’s best commercial partner at the end of Q2, 2018, Ecofin Agency learned from official figures. Even though it dropped by 8% on a year-to-year basis, the trade surplus between the union and its main African partners was estimated at CFA365.3 billion.
There is namely a positive balance of CFA260.5 billion with South Africa thanks to gold exported by Mali and Burkina Faso....
In an article released October 3, Robert Dussey, Togo’s minister of foreign affairs, chief negotiator for the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries discussed expectations in regards to cooperation between this block and the European Union (EU), after 2020.
Two days after the start of the first round of talks on the future of the Cotonou agreement in New York, the Togolese official...