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Togo Spends CFA213 Billion on Education in 2024, Boosting Infrastructure and Equity
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo invested CFA213 billion in 2024 to implement key projects under its Education Sector Plan (PSE), according to the Ministry of National Education. The update came during a recent progress review session for the national roadmap...
Togo: World Bank Pumps $300 Million into Agriculture
Togo First
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(Togo First) - The World Bank has approved a $300 million boost for Togo’s agriculture sector. The package, announced June 11, 2025, will fuel the country’s decade-long modernization plan, ProMAT. ProMAT aims to drive productivity, expand...
Togo Opposition, Activists Demand President Gnassingbé’s Resignation
News Central TV
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June 13, 2025
Opposition parties and civil society groups in Togo have called on President Faure Gnassingbé to relinquish power, urging citizens to begin a campaign of civil disobedience later this month in protest against what they describe as an illegitimate...
Togolese Lawyer Joins Key Diplomatic Talks on Strategic Minerals Between DR Congo and the U.S.
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Pascal Agboyibor, a Franco-Togolese business lawyer, plays a central role in ongoing negotiations between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the United States over strategic minerals. The presidential decree issued on May...
Togo Set to Benefit from New Phase of PARIIS Irrigation Project
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo and three other West African countries could gain stronger irrigation support under the new phase of the Projet d'Appui Régional à l'Initiative pour l'Irrigation au Sahel (PARIIS). Officials announced this on June 10, 2025, at...
Tinubu’s Trip To Troubled Benue And Tor Tiv’s ‘Torchlight’
Daily Independent
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June 27, 2025
1 An essay of mine, “Obasanjo, Atiku and Tinubu at a Time Like This,” published on June 1, 2025, canvassed that President Bola Tinubu took time off his Eid-el-Kabir break in Lagos to visit troubled spots across the country. It sought to pitch the...
BOAD reaffirms commitment to energy transition and sustainable agriculture in West Africa
Joy FM
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June 15, 2025
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has reiterated its dedication to promoting energy transition and sustainable agriculture across the sub-region. Determined to play a leading role in tackling these pressing issues, the bank convened the...
What a Difference a Day Makes: Rapper Raphael Olympio on the man who changed everything
Irish Examiner
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June 26, 2025
We’d moved from Togo, West Africa – first to a direct provision centre in Clonakilty, then Cork City. Togher Boys’ NS was my fourth school, including in Togo, which I’d left when I was five. It was a lot of moving, not a lot of stability. I don’t...
BOAD Development Days: Climate, Agriculture, and Energy Take Center Stage in Lomé
Togo First
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(Togo First) - The West African Development Bank (BOAD) launched the first "BOAD Development Days" in Lomé on June 12, 2025. Experts, policymakers, and private sector leaders gathered for two days to tackle climate change, agriculture, and energy...
Togo bishops warn change to constitution causing ‘fear’ in African nation
Crux Now
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June 6, 2025
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – Catholic bishops in Togo have warned of possible political upheaval following last year’s constitutional amendment that could see President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé hold office for life, thereby extending his family’s...
Green business partners: Why Europe should invest in climate-led companies in Africa
European Council on Foreign Relations
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June 12, 2025
Traditional climate finance mobilisation is over. Climate finance models have been following traditional aid models in their reliance on overseas development assistance (ODA) and other sources of grants and concessional public finance. But,...
Image of the day: Urban growth meets the border in coastal Lomé
Muser Press
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June 12, 2025
Lomé, the capital of Togo, stretches along the Gulf of Guinea in the country’s far southwest, where West Africa’s Atlantic coastline meets the Ghanaian border. As Togo’s largest city and primary economic center, Lomé serves as the seat of...
Recognising women’s land rights in Togo: a glimmer of hope
International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED)
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In Togo, as in many African countries, women's access to land remains a major issue, even though the country’s Land Code and international law require equal access to land for women and men. Inheritance, often the main means of accessing land,...
Togo Secures $58 Million IMF Disbursement After Key Agreement
Togo First
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(Togo First) - The Togolese government struck a new deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) following the second review of its economic program under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). After weeks of talks in Lomé and Washington, both...
31,500 Ghanaians migrated through deadly routes in 2023
Graphic
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June 26, 2025
About 70,000 Ghanaians migrated irregularly in 2023, out of which 45 per cent took the central mediterranean route, the Minister of Labour, Jobs and Employment, Dr Abdul-Rashid Hassan Pelpuo, has said. The central mediterranean route, which spans...
Togo has suspended all mining permits as they seek to join AES
Zambian Observer
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June 2, 2025
Togo has suspended all mining permits as part of a broader push to update its legal framework and restrain exploitation by foreigner. The announcement, first made by the Ministry of Mines on May 28, 2025, aligns with a growing wave of resource...
Togo To Join Mali, Burkina Faso’s Alliance, Suspends Mining Permits To
The Nigerian Voice
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The government in Togo has suspended the issuance of new mining permits to all foreign companies in the country. A spokesperson from the Ministry of Mines in the country was quoted as saying: “We are taking a necessary break to build a new mining...
Development banks to invest $3.4bn to tackle plastics pollution
Gulf Daily News Online
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A group of development banks plans to invest at least three billion euros ($3.4bn) by the end of the decade in tackling plastic pollution in the sea, expanding the scope and financial firepower of what remains the world’s biggest effort to fix the...
Addressing Ripple Effects of Flight Cancellations
This Day
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June 27, 2025
Over the years, air travelers in Nigeria have been violently rebelling against airlines when flight schedule decisions like flight delays and cancellations do not favour them. The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria and airlines have decided to...
Togo Launches National SME Week to Boost Business Growth
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo kicked off the second edition of its National Week for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (SN-TPME) on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. The event, running until June 5, stretches across several cities and focuses on the theme:...