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Yesterday, May 25th, President Faure Gnassingbe took part in the 38th Session of NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee. The meeting took place on the sidelines of Africa Day, which is celebrated on that date, by videoconference.
During the talks, the Togolese leader asked for a partnership to be established between AUDA-NEPAD, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA),...
British citizens returning home from Togo need no longer be quarantined upon arrival. This was disclosed by the UK which ranked Togo as one of the countries with the lowest Covid-19 exposure rate.
These travelers will simply have to present their negative PCR test and self-isolate for 10 days. Meanwhile, UK travelers who return from high-risk countries will be quarantined for 10 days, in...
Last Thursday, the Togolese parliament voted a law to protect and valorize the coastline, in a context where it is endangered by natural and human factors.
The law, deputies said, aims to sustain environmental balance, slow erosion, preserve the integrity of some sites, as well as landscapes and marine heritage. It should also protect the coast against pollution and degradation, regardless...
On May 22, 2021, the Togolese Prime Minister, Victoire Tomégah-Dogbé, urged actors to coalesce their efforts to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing. This was during the 23rd meeting of the Ministerial Committee of the Intergovernmental Action Group against Money Laundering in Africa (GIABA).
According to the PM, money laundering is gaining momentum in West Africa, thus the...
Ousmane Sonko, leader of the Senegalese opposition party PASTEF, will not be in Lomé for the coming summit on the Eco. Due to a decision of the Senegalese justice, he will take part in the event via videoconference.
Sonko, who was released from prison on March 8th, under judicial supervision, was expected to attend the event alongside other major actors of the African economy. These...
To valorize its peanut sector, Togo adopted earlier this year, new, more productive varieties. A total of 13 varieties from the Mali-based International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and four from the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research (ISRA) were in effect introduced and tested in Togo.
These varieties’ seeds are certified and have a...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) announced on May 18, 2021, the disbursement of $2 billion to support small businesses and boost trade in Africa. The support will, according to the World Bank’s arm, help African economies recover post-Covid.
In detail, a billion dollars will directly finance micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and the other half will finance...
By March 2022, Togo should have a national strategy to fight corruption and relation offenses more efficiently. Last Friday, the elaboration of this document was started by Christian Trimua, Minister of Human Rights and Spokesperson of the government.
Three years ago, the Higher Authority for Prevention and Fight Against Corruption and Related Offenses (HAPLUCIA), an institution for which...
Moov Africa Togo is to pay a CFA593 million fine for "serious and lasting breaches of its obligation to provide its electronic communications networks and services on a permanent and continuous basis."
According to the same source, the subsidiary of Maroc Telecoms was notified of the fine. It is the result of a sanction procedure opened in October 2020 by the telecom regulator, ARCEP. Indeed,...
Last Wednesday, May 19, PM Victoire Dogbé visited the water tower sites of Bè, Nyékonakpoè, and Adougba. The projects were started less than a year ago, under the Program to Support Vulnerable Populations (PAPV).
Once operational, the towers, with a total capacity of 4,000 m3 of water, should boost access to water in Lomé. Up till now supply to the capital is ensured by a plant in...
Remittances from the Togolese diaspora fell 4% in 2020, from about $458 million (CFA247 billion) in 2019 to $441 million (CFA238.3 billion). The data was disclosed by the foreign minister, Robert Dussey, at the commissioning of the Single diaspora desk last May 10th.
The decrease, which happened after a 1.55% increase in 2019, however, is better than the average in the region. In...
Togo is working on a plan to tackle illegal fishing in the country’s waters. The related strategic document is being validated in Lomé by actors of the sector gathered for a 2-day workshop started yesterday.
In detail, the actors are assessing challenges the sector needs to overcome, which include unauthorized fishing and fake registration of fishing boats.
“The national action...
As it has been facing severe outages for some weeks now, Ivory Coast will reduce its power supply to some countries in the West Africa region. The news was announced by the country’s minister of energy, Thomas Camara, on May 10.
The countries concerned by the measure include Togo, Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Liberia, which import 11% of Côte d’Ivoire’s gross output. With the...
Yesterday, the cassava transformation factory of Nouvelle Société de Commercialisation des Produits Agroalimentaires (NSCPA), located in Kamina (5km east of Atakpamé and 161.5 km from Lomé), was inaugurated by Prime Minister Victoire Dogbé. Works to build the facility took less than a year.
The first of its kind in Togo, the plant should generate over 3,700 direct jobs in the cassava...
Climatic hazards, poor seed quality, and the Covid-19 pandemic. These are the reasons that could explain, according to the New Cotton Company of Togo (NSCT) and the national cotton growers organization, the sharp drop in the 2020-2021 campaign, now ending.
Meeting on May 18-19 in Sokodé, in the central region, major players in the sector announced that this year the sector underperformed,...
At the end of a meeting with Faure Gnassingbé, Togo’s President, last Tuesday in Paris, the Director-General of the International Finance Corporation, Makhtar Diop, announced two major investments for Togo.
The first concerns the construction of a solar plant and the other a submarine fiber optic cable project to improve internet access in the West African country. “For us, the goal...