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A fire broke out in the port area today, November 4. According to initial information that Togo First gathered from residents, the fire started at the foam and mattress manufacturing plant, near the refinery, not far from the Lomé Port Authority.
"Emergency measures have been deployed to control the fire and minimize material damage. We extend all our solidarity to the management and staff...
The Development Bank of Mali (Banque de Développement du Mali - BDM) has opened its doors today, Nov 4. The news was disclosed by the lender’s management.
The Malian lender, which is headed in Togo by Souleymane Keita, will carry out all sorts of “financial transactions, commercial, industrial and securities.”
BDM-Togo is registered at the Centre for Business Formalities (CFE). Its...
Coris Bank international Togo (CBI-Togo) will invest CFA20 billion to finance Soybean processing at the Adétikopé Industrial Platform (PIA). The related agreement was inked by Anurag Sinha, VP, Agricultural Supply Chain at ARISE IIP, the company that manages the PIA, and Alassane Kaboré, MD, Coris Bank International Togo.
The PIA will use the funds to get soybeans from farmers and aggregators...
On the sidelines of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Togo's Head of State, Faure Gnassingbé, carried out several activities.
The Togolese leader took part in the "Action on Forests and Land Use" meeting and the launch of the Global Methane Pledge initiated by the US and the EU.
Gnassingbé also attended the inaugural ceremony of the International Renewable Energy Agency...
It is now mandatory for anyone accessing administrative buildings, all over the Togolese territory, to present a Covid health pass. The constitutional court of Togo recently approved the extension of the measure which formerly applied only to the Golfe and Agoè-nyivé prefectures.
Article 1 of the ordinance states that "access to any administrative building throughout the national...
The ECOWAS is developing a new climate strategy, specifically designed to improve its coordination of climate action in West Africa.
“Because coordinated regional action has more impact than the addition of national policies alone, ECOWAS has been working throughout 2021 to develop a Regional Climate Strategy,” reads a press release issued by the institution on November 1. “This strategy...
In Togo, the government gave 46 pick-ups to the ministry of primary and secondary education last Friday. The rolling stock, worth CFA800 million, aims to reinforce the operational and management capacities of this ministry.
The provision ceremony took place at the Scientific High School of Lomé. It was presided by the minister of education, Dodzi Kokoroko, in the presence of other official and...
ProDeGol: 10 Togolese municipalities get brand new administrative facilities from the EU and Germany
The EU delegation, in Togo, and the German embassy offered administrative buildings to 10 of the country’s municipalities. The symbolic ceremony for the buildings’ reception took place in Sotouboua (a town located 280 km from Lomé) last week’s ending.
The EU and Germany injected €2 million (around CFA1.3 billion) in the facilities, via the ProDeGol - a decentralization and...
Togo is unlikely to face a shortage of Covid vaccines soon. The news was disclosed by the country’s minister of health, Moustafa Mijiyawa, while he was getting a new batch of Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Indeed, on Monday, November 1st, Togo received 475,200 doses of the American vaccine. This batch is part of a stock of four million Togo asked for via the African Union’s AVAT...
The President of Togo, Faure Gnassingbé, arrived yesterday in Glasgow for the launch of the COP26 climate summit.
The West African leader, according to the Togolese Presidency, believes the meeting will allow him to renew his commitment and that of his country regarding climate; the COP26 aims at consolidating commitments made under the Paris Agreement in 2015.
"Committed to the reduction...
After Niger and Burkina Faso, Togo also recently received the World Bank’s support for the Lomé-Ouagadougou-Niamey economic corridor project. Last Friday, Sani Yaya, Togo’s minister of finance, and Coralie Gevers, chief of operations World Bank in Togo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Guinea, signed a financing agreement for $120 million (around CFA68 billion).
The signing was chaired by...
Presently in Togo on an official visit, Ousmane Diagana, Vice President of World Bank for Central and West Africa, was at the Lomé Data Center - the country’s first-tier III-certified data center - on Oct. 29.
Diagana visited the facility, among others, with Cina Lawson, the Togolese Minister of the digital economy, Coralie Gevers, the World Bank’s chief of operations in Côte d’Ivoire,...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has disbursed CFA35 million to support 10 sports associations and three federations. The beneficiaries won a call for projects launched by the Autonomous District of Grand Lomé (DAGL).
Each of the associations will get CFA2 million while the federations will equally share CFA15 million. The funds will be used to carry out sports initiatives that foster good...
It is with great pride that PIA announces its partnership with the MAERSK LINE group, the world's largest shipping company.
MAERSK will put its expertise and all of its means at the service of the Dry Port of PIA.
This is a great success for the whole PIA team but also for TOGO, for which this dry port will be a huge asset, in addition to all the industries being set up on the...
In Togo, the project to provide basic health services of quality, under the universal health coverage target, was started yesterday, Oct. 28. The project was launched by the PM Victoire Tomegah-Dogbe, and the World Bank’s Vice President for Central and West Africa, Ousmane Diagana, who is currently in Togo.
Financed by the World Bank ($70 million), this project aims to improve access to basic...
The Togolese Head of State, Faure Gnassingbé, and the United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Deputy Minister, Sheikh Shakhbout Ben Nahyan Al-Nahyan, met yesterday, Oct. 28. Notably, they discussed ways to boost the cooperation between their respective countries.
The talks, according to the Togolese Presidency, focused mostly on investments, agriculture, power, and...