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Launched in October 2017, Togo’s School Assur Program has provided 3,343,717 health services to students in Togo as of October 20, 2022, according to data provided by the government.
Over the period, the program has allowed 1,244,240 consultations and 17,217 hospitalizations of students suffering from various diseases, while the number of surgeries recorded is estimated at 55,168; 360,947...
In the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the implementation of rules related to the harmonization of standards and procedures for the control of the gauge, weight, and axle load of heavy goods vehicles will start being implemented on January 1, 2024. This was decided last Friday by the Union’s ministers of infrastructure and road transport. On the same day, the...
Last Thursday, October 20, the Togolese parliament adopted the draft amending finance law, for the fiscal year 2022. The country’s budget now stands at CFA1,874.5 billion, against CFA1,779.2 billion initially (+5.4%).
The government attributes the amendment to security issues, including the terrorist threat, and global inflation due to which the authorities had to take palliative...
Afriland First Group recently opened an investment firm in Lomé, Togo’s capital. The new firm’s name is Afriland First Holding (AFH), according to Business in Cameroon.
From Togo, the source indicates, AFH will cover other West African countries. It is the first subsidiary of Afriland First Group dedicated to investment. Mostly, it will acquire stakes in businesses and investment...
The UK will guarantee a major road construction project in Togo with £68.6 million (CFA51.69 billion). The road is the Sokode-Tchamba-Kambole axis and is located in the north. It is 76.5 km long and connects Togo to the Republic of Benin.
The guarantee will be provided via UK Export Finance (UKEF), in support of a loan from the Japanese bank MUFG. The UK government revealed these details...
After Mahajanga (Madagascar), Dschang (Cameroon), and Bouaké (Ivory Coast), Lomé is the latest city to benefit from Africompost, a waste-recycling project that is financed by the French Development Agency (AFD).
This week, AFD said it pumped €200,000 (over CFA 131 million) into the project. In effect, the project involves setting up new facilities for improving the treatment and...
The World Food Program (WFP) recently said it will help Togo boost its food production, in line with efforts to guarantee food security in West Africa, and the hinterland especially. Last Wednesday, Oct. 19, the deputy executive director of the UN branch, Joyce Kanyangwa Luma, met with Togo’s PM, Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé, to discuss the matter.
"Togo plays a very important part in the...
Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbé, and England’s King Charles III, met yesterday, Oct. 20, in London. The two men mainly talked about peace, democracy, and sustainable development.
“We reaffirmed a common commitment to continue our efforts to promote peace, democracycy, and sustainable development,” Faure Gnassingbé wrote on Twitter.
Je me réjouis de la qualité de l'entretien que...
Over the next three years, the German ministry for economic cooperation and development (BMZ) will help 10,000 Togolese cotton farmers to produce their crops more sustainably. The European ministry will do so through GIZ’s “Support project for sustainable cotton production in Côte d'Ivoire, Chad, and Togo”. The latter was launched last week in Kara, the pilot city in...
The government of Togo wishes to make expropriation procedures less costly and simpler. In this framework, the Council of Ministers of October 17 evaluated a draft bill to amend the land and property code.
"Indeed, the implementation of these procedures has revealed too much complexity and a prohibitive cost for the state," the government wrote in a statement. "In order to address...
A terrorist attack will be simulated in Lomé’s administrative district next Thursday, October 20. The ministry of security and civil protection made the announcement in a statement issued on October 17, 2022.
The upcoming exercise is "part of the training of security forces, devoted to specialized intervention techniques," according to the note signed by Brigadier General Yark Damehane, the...
After landing the Threshold program, currently underway, Togo keeps striving to secure the Compact next. The latter, let’s emphasize, is the most important support mechanism of the American Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
Last Thursday, Oct. 13, Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbé, met MCC’s Executive Director Alice Albright. The two parties took the opportunity to review the...
In the past three years, the State’s Support Fund for Territorial Collectivities (FACT) spent nearly CFA15 billion on local municipalities. The minister of territorial administration disclosed this during the council of ministers held in Lomé on October 17.
"These funds made it possible to carry out collective social works even if there are still challenges regarding the optimal use of these...
Togo retained CFA33 billion out of CFA70 billion raised on the WAEMU-securities market last Friday, Oct. 14. The amount mobilized exceeds the country’s target - CFA30 billion - for the issue of fungible treasury bonds.
The issue, a simultaneous issue, comes shortly after Togo scaled up its fundraising ambitions for the year, due to a 5.4% increase in the budget imputed to global inflation and...
Sun King, the solar home energy solutions provider, recently revealed it acquired Soleva, an operator and distributor of off-grid solutions active in Togo, among other countries.
Before Sung King bought Soleva, the two businesses were partners on the Cizo project, a rural electrification project initiated by the Togolese presidency. Under their partnership, Soleva distributed the solar kits of...
After jumping by 50% in 2021, passenger traffic at Lomé airport kept growing in the first half of 2022. In H1 2022, the number soared by over 40.8%, official sources revealed. Air freight also grew over the period, though very little (+1.8%).
The growth in passenger traffic is attributable to borders reopening, worldwide, and key sectors, like tourism, recovering. Also, in Togo, the...