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The town of Aného, located 30 km southeast of Lomé, is getting a new tourist center. The mayor of Lacs 1 municipality, Alexis Aquereburu, recently announced that work is underway on the project.
The center will be a place to promote and showcase the culture of the Lacs 1 municipality. It will be equipped with furnishings like office furniture, sculptures, and paintings that illustrate...
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland met with Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé on July 17. The two met in Pya, a town located 410 km north of the Togolese capital Lomé.
The two discussed potential cooperation between the Commonwealth and Togo, especially in the economic area.
After the talks, it was announced that the Commonwealth plans to support Togo with major development...
Togo has launched hydrogeological studies in Greater Lomé as part of the Togo Urban Water Security Project (PaSH-MUT). The studies will be conducted by Quantum, a subsidiary of the Saretec Group.
Last week, during a meeting with the Minister of Water and Village Hydraulics, Quantum executives announced they will search for, extract, and preserve groundwater in the Togolese capital. The firm...
Togo is reviewing how dangerous goods are managed at the Lomé port. Officials from the port and the Ministry of Civil Protection held a meeting last week to discuss this issue.
The meeting participants analyzed the current practices for handling these sensitive goods, as well as the level of implementation of national and international regulations. They found that more needs to be done to...
Lomé is hosting a three-day meeting focused on harmonizing health education programs in the ECOWAS. The meeting began on July 16 and was organized by the West African Health Organization (WAHO). It gathered ECOWAS health officials and professionals.
Lomé, July 15th, 2024 - The Technical Session to Align the Content of Basic and Specialized Training Curricula in the Three Official Languages...
A Commonwealth delegation held a working session with several Togolese officials yesterday, July 16, in Lomé. Patricia Scotland, secretary-general of the Commonwealth of Nations, led the European delegation.
The meeting focused on bolstering the Commonwealth-Togo partnership. Among others, participants covered Togo’s political and socio-economic context.
Togolese Prime Minister,...
In Togo, the 4th Scientific Days on HIV and AIDS ended on July 12 in Lomé. Organized by the Permanent Secretariat of the National Council for the Fight against AIDS and STIs, in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene, the event’s theme was "Building interventions from scientific evidence".
The meeting focused on drawing strategies and ways of improving health interventions...
Togo’s power utility, CEET, is about to expand its Cash Power update project to the whole country. The company announced the news in a statement dated July 15, 2024.
In the statement, the utility noted that the project’s pilot phase, which started on July 15, ended in good conditions.
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The expansion phase kicked off on July 15, from the CEET branches of Lomé Headquarters,...
Togo’s Top Anti-Corruption Body, HAPLUCIA, has teamed up with several Civil Society Organizations to fight corruption in the country. Various agreements were inked last week in this framework.
The partnering CSOs will organize awareness workshops with Togolese citizens. They will also benefit from the Good Governance project financed by Germany and implemented by GIZ.
The end goal...
The Ecowas Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) launched yesterday a green and sustainable bond issue in the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) zone, via a public offering. The Bank seeks about $70 million through the issue, the first of a kind in the WAEMU market.
This operation will help raise the third tranche in a series of fund-raising initiatives targeting CFA240...
The Gnassingbé Eyadema International Airport (AIGE) had 1.4 million passengers in 2023. This is 52% more than in 2019, when the figure stood at 916,000.
The launch of new flight routes mostly spurred the surge. Six new routes have been launched, two with Ethiopian Airlines and four with Asky, bringing the total number of destinations served worldwide to 41. Additionally, Liz Aviation, a firm...
Togo raised CFA30.3 billion on the West African Monetary Union (WAMU) securities market last Friday, July 12. That is about CFA5 billion less than the country was targeting for the operation.
According to the operation’s report, Lomé secured CFA17.5 billion through fungible treasury bills and CFA12.8 billion through fungible treasury bonds. The former mature over a year and the latter...
The World Bank and the Government of Togo signed three new financing agreements last Friday, July 12. Totaling $298 million, the funds will help Togo boost access to electricity, improve public service delivery, and foster social cohesion.
The deals were inked by the World Bank’s Resident Representative and Togo’s Minister of Finance, Fily Sissoko and Sani Yaya, respectively. The...
The Togolese Ministry of Trade, Handicrafts, and Local Consumption, together with representatives of public administrations and economic operators, validated the National Strategy for Local Consumption on July 10, 2024.
This strategy is built around three main pillars. Firstly, it aims to make local goods and services more competitive. Secondly, it seeks to increase the visibility and...
Togo's new universal health insurance program has already enrolled 800,000 people. The program was launched in January 2024.
The figure is nearly 50% more compared to the 470,000 people previously covered by the National Health Insurance Institute (INAM).
The rapid growth in enrollment for the new universal health insurance program demonstrates Togo's commitment to improving access...
Sandra Johnson, Secretary General of Togo’s Presidency, met the press people last week on July 4. She told them about the steps that allowed the country to rank first among WAEMU countries in the latest Human Development Index (HDI) report. Johnson was with Yawa Kouigan, the Minister of Communication.
Togo scored 0.547 in 2023-2024 on the report, against 0.539 in 2021-2022. This is the fifth...