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Thousands of businesspeople–men and women–have been crossing the country's land borders with their goods, but until now they couldn’t denounce the daily issues hampering their activities, said Coami Sedolo Tamegnon, President of Togo’s Employers’ Council (CNP-Togo), and VP and also the Chairman of the Union of Industrial Importers and Exporters of Togo (SCIMPEXTO), Yiva...
On Wednesday 4, 2022, the Togolese government said it would reinforce the legal framework governing public procurement. This was during the council of ministers.
On the occasion, the ministers proceeded to a first read of the bill on the new public procurement code.
According to the council’s statement, the new code sets and details rules that ensure the preparation, provision,...
Togo lost 26 places in the latest press freedom ranking of the French NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The significant drop comes amidst “a two-fold increase in polarization amplified by information chaos” in the report which assesses the state of journalism in 180 countries and territories.
The West African country was ranked 100 over 180 with a score of 57.17 this year, thus dropping...
In Togo, Togocel and Moov Africa’s “consumers are still paying a lot for entry-level services”. This was disclosed on May 4, 2022, by the country’s Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP), which, a few months earlier, had recommended a tariff overhaul.
According to a statement from the regulator, a copy of which was obtained by Togo First, the two phone...
Opened last August, the call for tenders for the construction of a solar photovoltaic power plant to supply the Lomé airport has just been relaunched, "resized" by the Société aéroportuaire de Lomé-Tokoin (SALT), after feasibility studies.
A notice of prequalification was issued last month, for recruiting the firm that will finance, build and operate the 1.8 MW...
The Togolese ministry of agriculture and the Teolis Foundation officially launched on May 3, 2022, the “Stations Météos Togo” project. This is a project that will provide weather data to farmers across the country.
Concretely, all over the country, digital stations will be set up to monitor key indicators that influence agricultural cycles.
These digital stations collect, every five...
Under the supervision of the Ministry of Health of Togo, the Industrial Platform of Adétikopé (PIA) launched on April 4, 2022, a campaign for free cataract surgery covering all the regions of Togo. The program, "Vision for All", is fully initiated and financed by ARISE IIP/PIA, and aims to provide ophthalmological treatment to the entire Togolese population.
In effect, the beneficiaries will...
Last Friday, Wamkele Mene, Secretary-General AfCFTA, met with Togo’s President, Faure Gnassingbe. On the occasion, he presented the leader with a project aimed at digitizing custom procedures along the Abidjan-Lagos corridor.
"We have already secured the funds needed to achieve this agenda. Currently, we are ready to work with ECOWAS and the Togolese government. The thing now is to see to what...
The Autonomous Financing Company for Road Maintenance of Togo (SAFER) is seeking a consultant to audit all the works it has financed in 2021-2022. The related call for interest was published on May 3, 2022, in Togo Presse, a local newspaper.
The recruited consultant will, in effect, conduct a technical and financial audit of the road maintenance programs carried out by the Public...
Launched four years ago, Togo’s Employment Opportunities for Vulnerable Youth (EJV) project has come to an end. It received a "Highly Satisfactory Rating" from the World Bank, which supports the initiative, on April 29, during a closing workshop in Lomé.
Besides the World Bank and the Ministry of Grassroots Development, the meeting brought together various actors and beneficiaries, including...
In Togo, the 50-kg fertilizer bag (151515 NPK; 46% N Urea) will be sold at CFA18,000 during the upcoming agricultural season. Set by the government, the price was disclosed by the minister of agriculture, Antoine Lekpa Gbegbeni.
Though it is 44% more than the price set last year (CFA12,500), the new price is lower than the region’s average – between CFA19,000 and CFA25,000, depending on the...
Togo retained CFA33 billion from investors in its latest issue on the WAMU securities market, on April 29, 2022.
Overall, Lomé mobilized 40 billion from 14 regional investors, while it was seeking CFA30 billion–thus representing a 133% subscription rate.
For this operation, the treasury issued recovery bonds with a nominal value of CFA10,000, a maturity period of 120 months, and a fixed...
Between 2020 and 2021, the waiting time of ships in port on the Togolese coast, ie, vessels that anchor in territorial waters around the port infrastructure waiting to call or not, has fallen from about 27 hours to 22 hours. This is according to data provided by the Ministry in charge of the maritime economy.
Over the period, container transit time fell from 13.4 to 11.45 days for containers...
Consequent to receiving the parliament’s approval last Friday, April 22, the Togolese government said it will officially apply to join the Commonwealth next June.
The application will be submitted during the Commonwealth Summit in Rwanda. Christian Trimua, the Togolese minister of human rights, said the move would mark the beginning of a new phase in the adhesion process, which Lomé intends...
The Togolese government has spent in April alone more than 12 billion CFA on fuel subsidies. “Regarding petroleum products subsidies, we have exceeded CFA12 billion for April alone,” Kodjo Adedze, Minister of Trade, told journalists during a press conference on April 28, 2022. He co-hosted the conference alongside his peers, the minister of human rights, the minister of communication...
By the end of the year, Togo will have its very own agricultural processing agency, towards accelerating the sector’s development. This was disclosed Wednesday, April 26, by President Faure Gnassingbé, during his address to the nation on the 62nd independence anniversary of the country.
The agency is already being set up, according to the minister of communication Prof. Akodah Ayewouadan....