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In Togo, the Galilée project which aims to provide every student with a laptop has been extended to teachers and lecturers working in public and private schools (primary, secondary and tertiary education).
In detail, eligible beneficiaries will have the opportunity to get a new laptop for CFA110,000 against CFA250,000 normally. An initial payment of 50,000 CFA is to be made and the...
Yesterday, Lomé hosted a workshop on the Components Needed for the Efficient Management of Municipalities. The session gathered 117 mayors from all parts of the country.
Participants will work on ways to improve the quality of their service in their respective communities. This should in the long run help them better manage State funds they receive this year.
This is in a context...
The Togolese government will provide XOF3 billion to the 117 municipalities where local elections were held last year. The news was announced on Sept. 7 by the minister of decentralization and local communities, Payadowa Boukpessi, on the sidelines of a workshop for the country’s mayors.
The monies, which will be allocated through the Fonds d’Appui aux Collectivités Territoriales...
Togo remains the only ECOWAS member state that meets the convergence criteria for the adoption of the Eco, the future single currency of the zone.
The West African country was again recognized for this achievement at the 57th ECOWAS Heads of State Summit held in Niger and attended by Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé.
The criteria to be adopted by all 15 member states of the ECOWAS include a...
Togo remains the only ECOWAS member state that meets the convergence criteria for the adoption of the Eco, the future single currency of the zone.
The West African country was again recognized for this achievement at the 57th ECOWAS Heads of State Summit held in Niger and attended by Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé.
The criteria to be adopted by all 15 member states of the ECOWAS include a...
Togo is looking for innovative solutions to protect its coasts, as part of the fight against coastal erosion and the protection of its coastline.
According to public authorities, the movement’s main objective is to have "no more construction along the coast being swallowed by the sea by June 2021." This is while waiting for the WACA program, which aims to tackle coastal erosion and sea...
The ECOWAS Heads of State met today in Niamey, Niger, for the Community’s 57th ordinary summit.
This is the first time in months that the leaders gather physically, after holding virtual meetings, due to the covid-19. During the summit, they will discuss the region’s political, economic, and security situation.
The heads of state will specially discuss the situation of Mali...
Besides striving to have one of Africa’s top container ports, Lomé’s port, according to recent figures, is also improving its performances relating to transit with Sahel countries.
The port of Lomé currently handles more than 2.85 million tons of goods destined to these countries. This is almost three times the volume it did in 2013 - 1.26 million tons or 60% of the infrastructure’s...
The port of Lomé is the second container port in sub-Saharan Africa and is among the top 5 African ports in terms of transshipment. This is according to Lloyd’s List, a well-known magazine specialized in the maritime industry (in publication since 1734).
Over the past year, the port handled 1.5 million containers and on the continent, it follows Tanger Med in Morocco (first container...
According to the 2020 Greenfield FDI Performance Index released this month, Togo is the world’s top performer in terms of foreign direct investments, with a score of 10.83 and 11 FDI projects attracted last year.
Togo “attracts more than 10 times the amount of greenfield FDI that might be expected given the size of its economy.” It thus exceeds the annual average of the performance...
Yesterday, the parliament greenlit the biometric ID project (e-ID Togo). According to the assembly’s president, Yawa Tsegan Djigbodi, the latter aims to “identify each Togolese citizen uniquely.”
For her part, Togolese minister of posts, digital economy, and technological innovation, Cina Lawson said “the adoption of this law is historic because it lays the legal foundations of the...
A new labor code, aimed at establishing a more business-friendly economy, was recently submitted to the assembly for validation.
According to sources close to the case, the new pro-investment document aligns with the government’s reforms to improve the business climate. It was elaborated through a participatory and inclusive process, involving all concerned stakeholders - labor unions,...
Togo’s neighbor Ghana will get a €79 million loan from the UK to expand the 166km-road from Tema to Aflao which connects the two countries.
Once the expansion works (carried out by the British company BHM Construction International) are completed, four lanes will be added to the existing two. Also, the Lower Volta bridge at Sogakope (located in former British Togo), which crosses...
The impact of Covid-19 on the fertilizer market in Togo is “limited”, according to recent evaluations by African Fertilizer, a strategy firm specialized in the fertilizer and agribusiness sector (and partner of Development Gateway and AFRIQOM).
The organization has developed an interactive map that assesses the overall impact of the pandemic on the fertilizer market in Africa. The tool...
Yesterday, Pré Simfétchéou, director of the cabinet of the Prime Minister’s office, led a field visit to assess progress made in implementing the automated tracking system (ATS) which was recently launched by the Togolese Revenue Authority (OTR).
In the framework of the visit which was organized by the OTR, four companies were inspected : Société Nouvelle de Boissons...
Togo’s minister of agriculture, Noël Koutera Bataka, wants to put an end to the illegal fertilizer trade in the country. “It was brought to my attention that some informal networks importing fertilizers of questionable quality feed illicit supply chains across the Togolese territory,” he declared.
Further indicating that the fertilizers concerned can be “harmful to the soil, the...