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Gathered for their weekly council on May 11, Togolese ministers issued a decree that defines the structure and functioning of the new National Fund for Culture Promotion (FNPC), formerly the Culture Support Fund or FAC launched in 2013.
The fund will aim “to bolster the cultural value chain through the professionalization of the sector and the emergence of true cultural and creative...
Lomé currently hosts the first edition of the Festival la Marmite (FESMA). The culinary event is organized by Focus Yakou Communication. Started on May 10th, it aims to get one or more Togolese meals on the UNESCO’s heritage list, like Senegal’s most famous meal, the Tiep Bou Dien.
The fair was officially launched by the minister of tourism, Kossi Lamadokou. It gathers cooks from all...
The Togolese state will spend 17.68 billion CFA on fertilizer subsidies in the 2022-2023 agricultural campaign. The figure was disclosed on May 9, by the Center for Input Supply and Management (CAGIA).
Already, the government said it has purchased 76,000 t of fertilizer for the campaign. It will pay a CFA13,000 subsidy for the 50-kg fertilizer bag which will thus cost farmers CFA18,000. "Today,...
GIZ, the German Cooperation Agency, will map out Togo’s digital actors. To this end, it has launched a project to collect data on key components of the Togolese digital entrepreneurship ecosystem, reads a statement released on May 10, 2022. On the same day, surveys related to the project were started and should cover the whole country.
The project, according to Urbain Amoussou, Mission Manager...
Launched in August 2021, WEZOU, a State program that supports pregnant women and newborns in Togo has already drawn over CFA950 million from the government. According to data recently published by the ministry responsible for universal access to healthcare, the program now covers 680 health centers across the country.
The CFA950 million it mobilized so far was used to enroll more than 160,000...
On May 9, 2022, the High Committee in charge of the African Roots and Diaspora Decade assessed major ongoing projects that fall under the Decade’s agenda. The meeting, chaired by the Togolese minister of foreign affairs, Robert Dussey, was held online.
In detail, the participants reviewed Morocco’s business forum project aimed at leveraging fintech to cut remittance costs, and Togo’s...
The Togolese Agency for Identification, ANID-TOGO, will partner with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) to explore ways AI can help Togo better fight poverty. According to the Togolese Presidency, Annie Duflo, IPA’s executive director, met with President Faure Gnassingbé last Monday in Lomé to discuss the partnership.
"It was a great honor and pleasure to exchange with the President...
Like in the past years, Togo had an output surplus across several agricultural sub-sectors in the latest campaign. The ministry of agriculture, which disclosed the news, added that agricultural output increased by 3.56% overall.
In the cereal sector, there was a surplus of 179,000 t, including 159,000 t of corn. Roots and leguminous surpluses respectively stood at 751,700 t and 139,100 t. There...
A kilogram of 1st-grade seed cotton will be sold to farmers at CFA300 in the 2022-2023 season, 13% more than in the last season (CFA265). As for 2nd-grade seed cotton, it will be sold at CFA280 /kg or 24% more than during the 2021-2022 season.
The updates were in an official note that the Nouvelle Société Cotonnière du Togo (NSCT) sent to regional directors of agricultural production on...
Last year, the net result of the WAEMU Regional Mortgage Refinancing Company (CRRH) was 1.401 billion, up 7.1% compared to 2020 (CFA1.308 billion).
The figure was disclosed during the company’s 11th ordinary general assembly, held online last month. The assembly approved CRRH’s results for 2021 and allocated all its revenues to reserves and retained earnings.
Based on this...
Faure Gnassingbé, the Togolese President, is currently in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, where he is attending the fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The session began today, May 9th.
The leaders present will discuss the prospects of SDG 15 which aims to preserve and restore the earth's ecosystem. They will...
The National Identification Agency of Togo (ANID) has been carrying out a sensitization campaign in the Savanes region for some days now. This campaign, according to well-informed sources, is part of the biometric identification project initiated by the government, in line with its 2020-2025 development roadmap.
Throughout the campaign, prefects, mayors, administration workers, actors of the...
In Togo, a kilogram of robusta coffee and cocoa are being sold at CFA830 and CFA930, respectively. The prices were set by the Coffee and Cocoa Sectors Coordinating Committee (CCFCC) for the period going from May 1 to 15, 2022.
They are respectively up by 1.8% and 1.6% compared to prices applied in the period from April 13 to April 30.
The revision, according to the CCFCC, was made...
In its eight years of activity, the National Fund for Inclusive Finance (FNFI) of Togo has loaned over CFA100 billion to people who cannot get access to traditional financing services. The figure, updated on March 31, 2022, was disclosed a few days ago by Mazamesso Assih, the minister in charge of financial inclusion and the informal sector.
The money was shared between more than 1.7 million...
On May 5th, 2022, Blaise Ahwantchede, Afrik Créances’ boss, revealed that the banking and non-banking intermediate company plans to set up the first support fund and single window for SMEs and SMIs (GURFI) active in the West African region. He announced this at the launch of the International Forum for Innovation and Digital Technologies (FONI) in Lomé.
In the presence of...
The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) has five new safety inspectors onboard. The newcomers were sworn in last Friday, April 6, at the Palais de Justice in Lomé.
Specializing in rescue services and firefighting aircraft, the inspectors have committed to making air navigation safer in Togo and will contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of laws on civil...