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Togo Invest Corporation SA and Kara Investment Fund recently signed an MoU to support Togolese businesses.
Through the deal, the two entities will combine their efforts to “raise funds to support Togolese micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs),” especially businesses in their growing phase.
In detail, the signatories will finance agricultural, clean energy, airport...
Togo will sign the African Medicine Agency (AMA) treaty. The country’s council of ministers recently examined and passed the draft bill that approves the treaty’s ratification.
Through this approval, Lomé wants to “consolidate its efforts relative to the fight against fake and low-quality drugs.” This is the goal of “the Lomé initiative” launched on January 18, 2020, by...
During its latest council of ministers, held on Sept. 15, the Togolese government discussed the creation of a single desk to collect non-tax revenues from the maritime sector.
The ministers examined the project, and discussed the platform's attributes and how it will operate.
The single desk should allow businesses operating in the maritime sector to complete, in a single place, all non-tax...
“Congo wants to emulate the high quality of work done at the Industrial Platform of Adetikopé (PIA), with its modern technologies, to set up its own Special Economic Zones. The world’s future is in Africa, so we must focus on locally processing our products.”
This was declared by Emile Ouosso, Congolese minister of special economic zones, last Monday as he met, in Lomé, with the Togolese...
Togo plans to launch its Electricity for All project (PEPT) next year. In this framework, the country’s minister of energy and mines, Mila Aziablé, was in Côte d’Ivoire on September 9 and 10 to meet with her Ivoirian counterpart, Thomas Camara. Aziablé’s goal was to learn more about Côte d’Ivoire’s experience in terms of electricity.
The Togolese on this occasion also discussed...
Togo’s minister of foreign affairs, Robert Dussey, chaired on Monday the second virtual meeting of the High Committee for the Decade of African roots and diasporas. On the occasion, he advocated for rapid implementation of the decision taken by the Heads of State and Government Conference regarding the 2021-2031 Agenda.
The Togolese diplomat argued that it was necessary to “meet, as fast as...
Eighteen-year-old people can get vaccinated against Covid-19 from now on in Togo. The government announced in a statement released on Sept. 13.
The country, which received new Pfizer and Sinovac shots last week, is deploying the vaccines across the territory. “These shots are being distributed in all of the country’s regions and will be administered to those aged 18 and above,” Lomé wrote...
Seventy-two percent of people living in Togo said they faced moderate or high poverty over the past year. This is one of the major conclusions of a survey that Afrobarometer conducted on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Under the study, 1,200 adults, all Togolese, were interviewed between December 2020 and January 2021. “The survey’s results present citizens’ opinions regarding 12 of...
Initially set to take place on Sept. 9-10, the fourth international conference on social enterprises and corporate social responsibility (CSR) will effectively be held, virtually, on Sept. 16 and 17 in Lomé. This was disclosed by a source close to the ministry of grassroots development.
Themed “Social Entrepreneurship: A lever to dynamize job creation in local ccoommunities, the event, the...
In Togo, 70% of the people in positions of leadership are women. The West African country is, according to a survey by the International Labor Organization (ILO), ahead of countries like Russia (46%), Sweden (42%), the US (41%), France (36%), and Germany.
“To get to that position in the global ranking, Togo has, for many years, been promoting women leadership, by appointing them at top...
The council of ministers adopted, last Thursday, the draft bill establishing universal health insurance in Togo.
The project falls under the first axis of the 2020-2025 government roadmap. This is “a major innovation in terms of social protection in our country. It will allow all layers of the population to have access to quality healthcare, through a mechanism that mutualizes risks and...
Togo’s telecom and post regulator, ARCEP, started on Thursday a national tour to inform and sensitize consumers’ associations about its mission: protecting and defending consumers’ interests.
Topics to be discussed include service quality, tariff rules, users’ identification, and the decree that puts a limit on the number of SIM cards a given user can hold.
The ARCEP explained the...
Initially scheduled to take place on September 9-10, the 4th international conference on social enterprises and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been postponed to September 16 and 17. This was announced by the Center for Social Entrepreneurship Resources (CeRES) on Twitter.
The conference is organized by the ministry of grassroots development and youth employment, and the US embassy in...
COFINA will back local agricultural actors with a CFA10 million facility. The related agreement was signed Wednesday between the company and the Agricultural Financing Incentive Mechanism (MIFA).
COFINA will support the mechanism with its expertise and experience in terms of financing SMEs. It will also support the MIFA in promoting and valorizing the agricultural sector.
The agreement...
Togolese Prime Minister, Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé, met last Tuesday with the various actors engaged in the fight against Covid-19 in the country. She told them to implement safety measures more efficiently.
Amid a resurgence in the number of cases and deaths tied to the virus, the PM urged actors concerned to “reinforce the safety measures and remobilize populations for their efficient...
The pilot phase of WAEMU’s community college project will be launched in Togo. The workshop to validate the technical document for the project commenced on Sept. 8 in Lomé.
During the four-day workshop, regional experts will validate the legal framework that will ease the project’s implementation and draw a list of professions falling under the pilot phase. This phase will be carried out at...