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Togo was elected on Monday to join UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, where it will serve for the 2025-2029 term.
As a member of the committee, the West African nation will take part in annual meetings on the use of the World Heritage Fund and on the allocation of financial assistance requested by member states. It will also help decide which new sites are added to the World Heritage List and,...
Togo has established a national framework for developing and submitting projects to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Ministry of Environment, Forest Resources, Coastal Protection and Climate Change announced following a meeting with national stakeholders in Lome last week.
The framework brings together actors from several entities, including the Presidency of the Council, the High Council for...
The University of Lomé hosted the first China-Africa Dialogue on Governance on Monday and Tuesday, in partnership with the Chinese Embassy. The meeting brought together around 60 participants, including a 15-member delegation of experts from several Chinese institutions, to discuss governance, development, and academic cooperation.
Talks centered on two main themes. The first was cooperation...
Fifteen West and Central African countries meet in Aného to review projects funded by the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environment Facility.
FAO warns that no country in the region has fully used its allocated climate-finance resources.
The workshop aims to validate a regional agro-pastoral resilience project and strengthen access to international climate funds.
Togo gathers fifteen...
Togo’s newly established Senate has formed its standing committees, completing the final step before it begins examining the 2026 budget, the first since its creation.
The upper chamber held its second plenary meeting on Tuesday to approve its seven standing committees. This marks the last phase of internal organization before reviewing the 2026 finance bill, which is currently under...
Coris Bank International (CBI) Togo has become a shareholder in the West African Economic and Monetary Union’s Regional Mortgage Refinancing Fund (CRRH-UEMOA).
The institution has confirmed the addition of three new Coris Group subsidiaries, CBI Togo, Benin, and Senegal, to its shareholder base. This brings the number of Coris entities participating in the fund to five, alongside its...
Togo’s council president, Faure Gnassingbé, called for a stronger Africa-Europe partnership to tackle shared security and economic challenges at the 7th African Union-European Union Summit on Monday and Tuesday.
In his address, he outlined three priorities: peace as a global public good, reforming multilateralism, and building a shared framework for stability.
Gnassingbé said African states...
The Rice Program for West Africa (RIZAO) has been launched in Togo's Sotouboua cluster, led by INADES-Formation and Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA).
The program is part of a regional consortium that includes AfricaRice, MEDA, and 35° Nord, with funding from the Mastercard Foundation.
Launched in 2024, the program aims to strengthen the capacities of rice producers,...
The University of Lome will open a new center to train candidates for agrégation competitive examinations its president said on Monday.
Kossivi Hounake made the announcement during a ceremony honoring 11 Togolese candidates admitted to the 22nd agrégation competition of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education (CAMES) in legal, political, economic and management...
Togo’s Kossi Ténou has been appointed to head the Financial Markets Authority of the West African Monetary Union (AMF-UEMOA), replacing Badanam Patoki, who has been named Togo’s Minister of Economy and Strategic Foresight.
The decision was announced on Tuesday after an extraordinary session of the UMOA Council of Ministers. The leadership change comes as member states seek to raise...
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) is hosting a training session in Lomé this week for public procurement actors. The goal is to improve the understanding of procurement procedures and speed up disbursements for projects financed in Togo.
The initiative follows several implementation reports that highlight delays caused by a partial understanding of tender rules.
CFA1 098 billion in...
The Togolese government and its partners updated and adapted legal texts on governance and contract farming early last week. The revision aims to strengthen the interprofessions of the maize, cassava, soybean, pineapple, and mango sectors.
It will soon lead to an interministerial order on the regulation, control, and monitoring of activities in these five value chains, along with the drafting of...
Lawmakers open committee examination of the 2026 finance bill.
The draft budget stands at CFA2,740.5 billion, up 14.4 % from 2025.
The document will proceed to the Senate after the Assembly’s review.
In Togo, the National Assembly began committee review of the 2026 draft finance law on November 24. Recently adopted by the executive, the session will span several days and focus on an...
Legal professionals gathered in Lomé for the third edition of Nuit du Droit, an event dedicated to examining how the law should evolve in an increasingly digital society. Co-organized by the Association togolaise pour la promotion du droit (ATPD) and the IPDCP, this year’s edition explored the theme “Droit et transformation numérique : vers une société de confiance ?”, which...
A scientific symposium on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was held in Lomé, concluding the World AMR Awareness Week on Saturday, June 22, 2025. Researchers, doctors, biologists, pharmacists, and institutional actors discussed the health and economic challenges linked to the progression of AMR in Togo.
A training session for media professionals was held on November 18 by the BIOLOIM/FSS-UL...
Togo has begun preparing a management plan for the Tchorogo protected forest in Blitta prefecture. The initiative was launched on Saturday, November 22, 2025, in Blitta-Gare, 260 km north of the capital, Lomé.
The plan will serve as a 10-year framework for the sustainable management of the forest. The 1,515-hectare Tchorogo forest, designated a protected area in January 1947, has never had a...