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During the roundtable held in Lomé on December 1 and 2, some financial institutions and international organizations promised to provide Togo with over €230 million (about CFA157 billion) to improve access to clean water across the territory.
Precisely, the World Bank promised $100 million for various water projects, the Banque Ouest africaine de développement (BOAD)...
Togo recently adopted a guide to help startup founders raise funds. It was launched on November 30, 2022, in Lomé.
The document takes an in-depth look at the country’s financing ecosystem and financing opportunities available to Togolese entrepreneurs. "This guide provides information on the methodology of access to finance and also information on support structures, and the various existing...
The 5th edition of the Togo Top Impact (TTI 2022) Awards was launched in Lome on December 3, 2022. Organized by the National Organization for Excellence and Integral Development of Togo (ONEDI-Togo), this is an event that rewards individuals or entities that have marked the country throughout the year. And this year, the focus is digital transformation.
For this edition, there will be 11...
Togo expects a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the first quarter of 2023. The timeline was given by Finance Minister Sani Yaya during an interview on the sidelines of Africa’s Financial Industry Summit (Lome, Nov 28-29).
According to the official, the country will resume the discussions in early 2023 with hopes for a new deal by the end of the...
Togo and Mauritius are looking for ways to bolster their economic cooperation. Indeed, the Togolese President, Faure Gnassingbe, and Dhanesswurnath Vikash Thakoor, CEO of the National Financial Services Commission of Mauritius, discussed various possibilities in this regard, yesterday, Nov. 29, during an audience that the President granted the executive.
"We discussed the possibilities of...
IB Bank-Togo will financially support two firms located at the Industrial Platform of Adetikope (PIA). The lender signed the related financing agreement with the PIA last Friday, November 25, in Lomé.
The two beneficiaries are Togo Soja and Togo Organics who will use the new funds to boost their agricultural output, invest in the construction of their factories, transform local products,...
Mauritius-based money transfer startup, EziPay, is now operational in Togo. With its mobile app, Togolese residents will be able to receive and send money from and to Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Niger, Mali, Benin, Senegal, and Côte d’Ivoire, the startup posted on Facebook.
The EziPay app will “give people means to send money easily, safely and reliably, across borders, at a...
Faure Gnassingbe, the Togolese President, claims that the African States have four main tasks as part of their contribution to the development of the continent’s finance industry. He said so on November 28, while launching the second edition of the Africa Financial Industry Summit hosted in his country.
The first task is to build an attractive business climate. In this area, the leader...
So far this year, Togo has paid back CFA299 billion out of what it owes WAEMU investors. As at November 10, 2022, the country raised CFA433 billion from these investors this year.
The funds reimbursed break down into 27.5 billion of fungible treasury securities and 271.43 billion of fungible treasury bonds. This is according to data from the UMOA securities agency that Togo First...
Sergio Pimenta, Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for Africa, met with President Faure Gnassingbe on 28 November. The two men met on the sidelines of the African Financial Industry Summit held in Lomé, Togo.
On the occasion, the IFC’s VP for Africa talked about his institution’s priorities for Togo in the coming years. "We discussed financial inclusion and...
The Togolese President, Faure Gnassingbé, launched the second edition of the Africa Financial Industry Summit (AFIS) today, Nov. 28. The two-day event is being held in Lomé and it is the first time it takes place physically.
Over 600 decision-makers from the African finance industry are attending the summit. These include central bank governors (of Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, the BCEAO,...
Lomé will host, on December 1 and 2, a roundtable on access to water in Togo. In partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), the ministry of water and rural hydraulics is organizing the meeting.
During the two days the meeting will take place, Togolese authorities will discuss the country’s vision regarding access to drinking water, talk about related priorities, mobilize...
Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbe, was in Niamey on November 25, with other African leaders. They gathered for a meeting dedicated to Africa’s industrialization. The meeting follows an extraordinary summit of heads of State and government of the African Union (AU) on the AfCFTA.
In Niger, the leaders examined new policies to speed up Africa’s industrialization and strengthen the growth of...
Faure Gnassingbe, the Togolese President, gave an audience to Ecobank’s new Managing Director, Jeremy Awari, last Thursday, November 24. According to the Togolese presidency, the Kenyan was part of a delegation from the banking group that its board president, Alain Nkontchou, led.
During the meeting, Jeremy Awari reiterated Ecobank’s ambition to bolster its partnership with Togo; notably, it...
Lomé hosted an information meeting on the development of projects for the mobilization of climate finance, on 24 November 2022. The meeting was organized in the framework of Togo’s preparation program for accessing the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The organizers were the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the Togolese Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources.
The workshop brought...
In Togo, the Agency in charge of Rural Electrification and Renewable Energies (AT2ER) wants to install 70,000 solar street lamps. It launched last week, on Nov 14, a call for expression of interest targeting firms that can pre-finance, install and operate the equipment, under a Public Private Partnership.
"The objective of this pre-qualification process is to define the conditions for...