Togo

The drafting of the National Land Use Strategy, with the aim of mapping the country's disadvantaged areas and allow the government to invest in their development, adapting to their realities and needs

The wage gap between the employees of Togo Cellulaire and Togo Telecom is expected to narrow soon, with Togocom, the parent company of the two companies, signing a collective agreement with trade unions to this end

The country intends to restore the landscape of Koutammakou, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, according to a feasibility study recently approved by the Togolese Ministry of Culture and Tourism and its partners

A reminder of the need to obtain authorisation before subdividing plots of land has been issued by local authorities

Committed to reducing the trafficking of counterfeit medicines, Togo volunteered in 2022 to launch a pilot project to develop and implement a national plan to combat QIFM, it signed the Medicrime convention

A digital platform dedicated to employment, studied by the National Employment Agency and supported by UNDP, will collect and make available to the public and policymakers data on the local labour market

News of China reopening its borders and scrapping quarantine for incoming passengers has been welcomed by Togolese traders who can start rescheduling the trips to their first supply market instead of placing blind orders as forced to do for two years

ANAQES, a national agency specifically dedicated to coordinating the implementation of the Togolese quality assurance system in higher education and research, will soon be active

To implement the electrification of 317 communities with mini-solar grids, Togo received aids from the West African Development Bank and now the African Development Bank is contributing with €3,73 million

Togolese researcher Mawulolo Yomo, a doctoral student in Life and Environmental Sciences, is one of the winners of the 2022 edition of the Sub-Saharan Africa Young Talent Prize, organised by the L'Oréal Foundation in collaboration with Unesco

Last year, the country earned 748,6 billion CFA francs (€1,2 billion) from merchandise exports, growing from previous years, according to the Banque Centrale des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest

The census now underway will help know the social situation of all Togolese, said the Secretary General of Togolese Presidency, sharing the belief that the census is crucial for socio-economic development