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Starting from November 25, 2021, the European Union (EU) will be allowing those with a Togolese Covid health pass to travel across the community. Togo thus becomes the first sub-Saharan African country to enjoy this status.
"The Togolese government and the European Union Delegation are pleased to announce the recognition today of the digital vaccination certificate of Togo in all 27 countries of...
The Togolese government and the private sector officially signed on Tuesday the new charter for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The agreement paves the way for the provision of this updated document to the actors of this sector.
The document was initialed by the minister for financial inclusion and the informal sector, Mazamesso Assih, representing the government, and the...
Sungaz and Atingan Solutions are the two startups that will respectively represent Togo and Benin at the grand finale of the 2021 edition of the EDF Pulse Africa Contest next December in Paris. They were picked among eight other startups at the end of the Togo-Benin phase of the “EDF Africa Pulse Tour” which was hosted by the Energy Generation support structure on November 22 in...
KYA Energy Group, the Togolese manufacturer and dealer of solar-powered generators and devices, has signed a collaboration partnership with Institut International d'Ingénierie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement (2IE). Under the agreement, the two partners will collaborate in many segments, notably training, research and development, and experience sharing.
The agreement, which was signed in...
Barely 24 hours after receiving more than 300,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine offered by the US, Togo received – on Tuesday, - 151,200 new doses of the same vaccine - This time, on order.
The latest batch is the third the Togolese government has ordered, via the African Union. With it, the number of doses that the country has secured on order now stands at...
Food Security : World Bank to deploy $570M program in several West African countries, including Togo
The World Bank recently approved a $570 million food system resilience program (FSRP) for several West African countries, including Togo. The program will be implemented in multiple phases.
The first phase, which amounts to $330 million, will cover Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and involve three regional organizations - the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),...
Togo received 336,000 more doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines from the US last Sunday. The batch, supplied under the COVAX initiative, brings to 1,245,090 the total number of vaccine doses that Washington has offered Lomé so far.
This is the fourth batch coming to the United States. It will help Togo accelerate its Covid vaccination campaign (started on March 10, 2021).
It is worth...
In Togo, the fund set up by the executive to support municipalities’ budget, will soon have a technical secretariat for its management committee. In this framework, a draft decree was examined, and adopted, by the Council of Ministers, in a meeting held late last week.
According to the official communiqué of the council, setting up a technical secretariat should help local authorities...
The WAEMU-securities agency revealed last Friday that Togo’s first issue on the regional money market for Q4 2021 was successful. The country which was seeking CFA50 billion obtained CFA132 billion from regional investors, corresponding to a subscription rate of 265.82%. Lomé, however, retained only CFA55 billion.
Securities issued will mature over 15 years - a record on the...
Togo will need about CFA30 billion for its road maintenance projects next year. The projection was made by experts last Thursday, during a meeting held in Lomé and gathering representatives from the ministry of public works, road maintenance services, and the SAFER (Société Autonome de Financement de l'Entretien Routier). The meeting was aimed at elaborating a draft program budget for...
The CEET, Togo’s power utility has a new managing director: Degla Essenouwa. Holder of a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Networks, Essenouwa was appointed on November 18. He replaced Laré Santiégou who has occupied the position since May 2020.
The new manager will pursue his predecessor’s mission, knowingly distributing and selling power across Togo, in compliance with the...
This campaign, according to the tax administration, will allow it to draw up a tax map of the territory through the recording, processing and aggregation of the data collected which will be stored in a database.
According to the OTR, besides data collection, "such censuses are interesting for economic operators because they contribute to the development of their environment”.
All companies...
Actors of decentralized finance systems (DFS) took part last week in a two-day workshop on anti-laundering. The meeting which closed on Friday was organized by Expertise France and the Togolese cell that handles financial information (CENTIF-Togo).
Around 40 representatives from local DFS attended the meeting. They were trained by two experts who came from Benin and Senegal.
According to the...
The Golfe 1 municipality of Lomé needs CFA6.725 billion for its development over the 2022-2026 period. The figure is written in the municipality’s development strategy (PDC) which was presented last Wednesday to technical and financial partners as well as the civil society.
The PDC focuses on helping the youth and women become financially self-reliant. It also contains infrastructure projects...
Fishing has resumed at the Nangbeto lake, as announced last Wednesday by the minister of maritime economy, Edem Kokou Tengue. The resumption after a three-month pause was imposed to let the lake’s fauna regenerate.
However, the ministry in charge urged concerned fishermen to abide by a set of rules like having a permit or authorization issued. The use of mesh nets or similar to mosquito nets,...
The Togolese parliament has adopted, last Tuesday, the State Budget Settlement Acts concluding years 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. The vote took place during the eleventh plenary session of the second ordinary session of 2021 which aimed at enabling the government to better execute its budget.
"I would like to emphasize that the settlement bills for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 that you have just...