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In the first quarter of this year 2022, the National Agency for Volunteerism in Togo (ANVT), has mobilized 7,929 volunteers. This is 7% more than the agency's initial forecast of 7,361 mobilized volunteers, counting for temporary jobs. Over the same period, 57 jobs were created and 15 volunteers were trained.
These figures come from the government agency, as part of its ongoing quarterly review,...
Togo has become the African Trade Insurance Agency’s (ATI) most important sovereign shareholder, after getting $22.06 million in financing from Germany’s development bank, KfW. This is major news given that the country only joined the institution in 2020, with the initial participation of $12.5 million–a loan it obtained from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
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During a recent visit to the Hanoukopé market, where a fire broke out last Sunday, the Togolese minister of trade, Kodjo Adedze, said measures will be taken to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. The official was with some of his peers, namely Adjovi Lonlongno Apedo, minister for women promotion, Myriam Dossou-d’Almeida, minister for grassroots development and youth...
The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) wants to help Togo develop projects falling under its 2020-2025 government roadmap. The head of the institution, George Agyekum Donkor, expressed this ambition on April 12, 2022, as he met with Togolese PM, Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé.
The Bank is looking to invest in energy, technology, and digitalization projects. “The government's...
On April 12, 2022, Togolese deputies passed a bill revising the country’s immigration policy. The new law sets the general conditions of entry, stay, establishment, and exit of foreigners in Togo and should make it even more attractive for tourists and economic operators.
According to the parliamentarians, the vote to update the law whose first version dates from November 1987 aligns with...
During their latest council, on April 10, Togolese ministers issued a draft decree covering procedures related to the provision and execution of public-private partnerships (PPPs).
“This draft decree is aimed at strengthening the legal framework of public-private partnership contracts, and will facilitate the implementation of provisions relating to the award and execution of...
The motor vehicle tax, which is collected by the Tax Revenue Authority (OTR) has been suspended in Togo, the government announced on Monday, April 11.
Lomé in the corresponding statement said the suspension “aims to mitigate inflation’s impact on the transport of goods and people.” This, in a context where transport prices have soared due to the increase in fuel prices; an increase...
Henceforth, members of the Togolese diaspora will benefit from a 12% reduction on Asky’s flight tickets. The Togolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Integration, and Togolese Abroad signed an agreement to this end on April 5.
The discount applies to flights in both the business and economy class, regardless of the destination.
Also, the pan-African airlines said it would “waive the penalty...
In Togo, the second phase of the Support Project for Youth Employability and Integration in Growth Sectors (PAEIJ-SP) should begin soon. A nationwide survey is currently being conducted to define the orientations and outlines of this phase.
Authorities behind the project decided to move on to the second stage because the results of the first stage were beyond their expectations.
Regarding...
Germany committed more than CFA65 billion to Togo last year. The figure was mentioned during a strategic meeting between officials from the two countries–a meeting held in Lomé on April 8, 2022.
The money was used to finance a set of reforms validated in March 2021 by the two partners.
During the meeting, Lars Wilke, Director of West Africa at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation...
Announced last week, the conference on terrorism and political transition in the Sahel and West Africa was postponed from April 21 to an undisclosed date. This was revealed on April 11, 2022, in a statement issued by the Togolese ministry of foreign affairs and African integration.
The new date will be disclosed “to all national and international actors in due course,” the ministry...
Togo held a government seminar in Kara (in the northern part of the country) last Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9. The meeting addressed the implementation of key projects that fall under the 2020-2025 government roadmap, especially those that are part of the roadmap’s second and third axes.
The two axes should help boost job creation, modernize the country, and reinforce its structures....
Togo’s National Employers’ Council (CNP-Togo) and executives from the International Business Bank -Togo (IBB) want to activate the guarantee line of the African Solidarity Fund (ASF). The two parties discussed the matter last week, on April 6, in Lomé.
IBB’s top management, which is for the move, is working with CNP-Togo on a memorandum of understanding that should define how the...
Over the past month, global food commodity prices reached their highest level ever and the pace has been maintained in the past weeks.
“The FAO Food Price Index averaged 159.3 points in March, up 12.6 percent from February when it had already reached its highest level since its inception in 1990,” the FAO warned. The Rome-based UN body said the surge was mostly driven by prices of...
Nine more teachers joined the list of 137 teachers excluded from the Togolese education system and redeployed in the administration. The names of the concerned were released on April 5th by the Ministry of Public Service and Dialogue in a decree on administrative measures.
Like their 137 fellow colleagues, the nine teachers also respect the four-day work stoppage order issued on...
As part of the second phase of the Project to Support High School Reforms (PAREC II) in Togo, 384 classrooms are being built in the Maritime, Plateaux, and Savanes regions. The construction was officially launched last Monday by the minister of primary and secondary education, Dodzi Kokoroko.
The project covers 130 public high schools and it will help increase their capacity and conditions of...