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The Prime Minister of Togo, Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe, inaugurated, on October 31, 2022, the industrial sewing training center (GTC) of the Industrial Platform of Adétikopé (PIA).
By 2023, around 2,000 young Togolese will be trained at the center and later work in the local textile industry which will, in line with the government’s ambition, make clothes for the regional and internal...
Lome will host a national seminar on e-commerce next week, on November 10 and 11. Initiated by the Togolese trade ministry, the event will be organized in collaboration with the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Throughout the seminar, young Togolese entrepreneurs will learn about new marketing platforms. E-commerce, let’s emphasize, is a source of business opportunities, and a tool that...
The 4th edition of the Facilitation of Trade and Enhancement of Investments Fair (FERIN) started yesterday, November 1, and ends on Saturday, November 5. Hosted on the esplanade of the Palais des Congrès de Lomé, the fair is organized by the Association Terreau Fertile. The theme picked for this edition is "Investing in the Africa of Tomorrow".
This year, the innovation at the fair is the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has a portfolio of about CFA202 billion in Togo, with an overall disbursement rate of 61.5%.
The figures were recently disclosed by Sani Yaya, Minister of Economy and Finance, at the validation workshop of the conclusions of the AfDB portfolio review in Togo for the year 2022. The meeting, concluding four days of preliminary work, was held last Friday,...
The program of the 8th edition of the International Exhibition of African Textiles (SITA) was disclosed last Friday. It was unveiled by the minister of culture and tourism, Kossi Lamadoko, and the SITA’s general commissioner, Abdoulaye Mosse. This happened during a press conference held for the event’s official launch.
The minister of culture, during the conference, stressed the...
Last Thursday, October 27, the Banque Sahélo-sahélienne pour l’investissement et le commerce (BSIC), inaugurated its headquarters in Lomé, Togo. Some Togolese officials, including the minister of finance, Sani Yaya, and the minister of investment promotion, Rose Kayi Mivedor, attended the ceremony. There were also executives from the bank.
Now that it has its headquarters, BSIC will grow...
Togo’s council of ministers adopted last Thursday, October 27, a draft decree on the general framework for organizing quality assurance in higher education institutions, centers, or research and innovation organizations.
The document aims to make "more visible the overall direction of the quality assurance system in higher education and research,” according to the council.
The...
Last Friday, Togo and the European Union (EU) inked, in Lomé, two financing agreements worth €55 million, or just over 35 billion CFA francs, for two programs. The first is the PRSPL, a program to strengthen local public services, and the second is the PALCC+, a program aimed at supporting biodiversity protection, agroecology, and better tackling climate change.
The two agreements were...
Energy Generation (EG), the Togolese start-up that works to improve energy access and develop skills, is among the winners of the Ashden Awards 2022. In its category, the start-up is a joint winner with Zimbabwe’s Zonful Energy, according to Farmers Review Africa, a pan-African media focused on agriculture.
“For their work in improving energy access and developing skills, Togo’s...
On October 25, 2022, Togo’s parliament adopted the uniform law on factoring in the West African Monetary Union (WAMU), hence expanding the scope of financing instruments for businesses, especially SMEs.
"The adoption of this law comes at the right time to broaden the scope of financing instruments for SMEs/SMIs as part of the implementation of the government roadmap Togo 2025. The issue of...
Launched last Tuesday, October 25, the International Exhibition of Agriculture and Food of Lome (SIALO) will close on November 2, 2022. This year’s edition is the ninth, and it is held at the center of exhibitions and fairs of Togo (CETEF-Togo).
Placed under the theme “Irrigation, a factor of agricultural production”, this edition takes place after a two-year break attributed to...
Last week, on October 18, the Togolese ministers of trade and investment promotion, Kodjo Adedze and Rose Midevor respectively, signed with UK Export Finance (UKEF) an MoU to “formalize the constructive relationship” between Togo and the credit agency.
The MoU aligns with the CFA50 billion guarantee that UKEF recently said it will provide Togo to help it build the...
The EU delegation in Togo announced on October 24, 2022, that it will provide €30 million (about CFA19 billion) to Togo to better fight climate change.
The package, whose agreement will be signed at the end of this week, was disclosed in Lomé during the diplomatic week on climate. It will help implement the Climate Change Support Program (CCSP)
In detail, part of the funds will be used...
Togo’s fifth General Census of Population and Housing (RGPH-5) started on October 23, 2022. The official launching ceremony was chaired on October 24, by the minister of state, Payadowa Boukpessi.
"The results of this national and scientific operation are of great importance to the government," he said while urging them to provide the agents with all the information they might...
The World Bank wants to help Togo bolster agricultural mechanization, via its West Africa Food System Resilience Program (FSRP).
The initiative aims to provide tractors and agricultural machinery, power tillers, graders, and accessories for its partner structures in the country. To this end, the ministry of agriculture launched a call for tenders to recruit people who can provide the...
This year, Togo will host the SITA, the International Exhibition of African Textiles. This edition, the eighth, will be held in Lomé from November 4 to 6. Last year, it was held in Djibouti.
The theme picked for the upcoming exhibition is “The fabric industry in Africa”.
Among others, it will feature workshops, conferences, expos, parades, and fashion galas.
A few days...