Northern Accelerated Company: Unleashing Northern Ghana’s Fu...

Northern Ghana is a region of extraordinary promise and paradox. It boasts vast fertile plains, abundant sunshine, rivers, and mineral potential, yet remains among the least industrialized and most infrastructure-deprived parts of Ghana. Decades...

Rwanda’s Three-Day Business Registration Exposes Ghana’s Digital Gap

While an entrepreneur in Rwanda can register a business in three days, a Ghanaian counterpart faces a wait of nearly two months. That stark disparity, revealed in the World Bank’s latest Africa Pulse report, underscores how digital transformation...

Ketowoglo Yao Azoumah (KYA Energy Group): “Our goal is to make Togo a renewable energy hub in West Africa”

(Togo First) - Founder and CEO of KYA Energy Group, Ketowoglo Yao Azoumah shares his journey from academic researcher to solar entrepreneur. In this interview with Togo First, he reflects on the challenges of energy entrepreneurship in Togo as his...

How to build an integrated e-mobility market in Africa

For Africa, e-mobility is no longer an aspiration but an urgent necessity to achieve climate commitments, improve air quality, reduce fuel-price exposure and catalyse new industries in assembly, charging, software and batteries. Africa’s transport...

New Cross-Border Market Launches in Northern Togo to Drive Trade and Cohesion

(Togo First) - A new market opened on October 11, 2025, in Bengola, in the Cinkassé 1 commune, northern Togo. The five-hectare facility was built under the Social Cohesion Project (COSO), with support from the Local Authorities Support Fund (FACT)...

Gozem, NSIA Bank Togo launch new low-cost mobile money solution

Francophone African “super app” Gozem has launched Gozem Money, its new mobile money solution, in Togo, in partnership with NSIA Bank Togo. Available on Android and iOS, the Gozem “super app” brings together multiple services, including transport,...

Lomé Hosts BlueInvest Africa 2025 

(Togo First) - Lomé is hosting the third BlueInvest Africa Forum on October 15-16, 2025, an initiative by the European Commission held in partnership with the Togolese government. The event aims to connect investors and entrepreneurs in the blue...

Ghana secures additional 200m RMB Chinese grant for Aflao market, National Theatre

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that China has committed an additional grant of 200 million RMB to Ghana. This builds on an earlier grant of 200 million RMB intended for the construction of the proposed Aflao Market and the renovation...

In Togo, Jobs Now Trump Family Size for Youth

(Togo First) - Togo is experiencing a gradual demographic transition alongside its economic transformation, with the fertility rate dropping from 6.4 to 4.3 children per woman over the past three decades. The trend was a key focus of World...

Togo Integrates Private Insurers into Universal Health Coverage Governance

(Togo First) - Togo’s National Social Security Fund, CNSS, and the National Health Insurance Institute, INAM, the bodies managing the Universal Health Insurance, AMU, program, signed partnership agreements with several insurance companies on...

We’ve received additional 200 million RMB from China for Aflao Market, National Theatre — Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has announced that Ghana has secured an additional 200 million Renminbi (RMB), equivalent to about $28 million grant from China for the construction of the Aflao Market and the renovation of the National Theatre....

Mahama secures 200million RMB Chinese grant for Aflao Market and National Theatre

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China has granted additional ¥200m for Aflao Market, National Theatre projects – Mahama

President John Mahama has announced that China has granted Ghana an additional 200 million renminbi (RMB), bringing the country’s total support from Beijing to 400 million RMB. According to the President, the new grant will support the...

ECOWAS, World Bank Organise Seminar On International Taxation

A regional seminar on international taxation was held in Accra, Ghana, from September 22nd to 26th, 2025, jointly organized by the World Bank’s EMFTX team and the ECOWAS Commission, with support from regional and international partners. The...

Gozem Money Launches, Expanding Mobile Payments Offerings in Togo

(Togo First) - Togo's financial ecosystem expanded on October 7 with the official launch of "Gozem Money," a new mobile money solution. Developed by the Lomé-based startup Gozem in partnership with NSIA Banque, the service was announced a year ago...

DHL Group commits over €300 m to accelerate African trade growth

Multinational logistics company DHL Group on October 15 announced an over €300-million planned investment in sub-Saharan Africa. The announcement was made during the DHL Group's ‘Global Trade Shifts – Spotlight Africa’ media tour, held this week...

Ecobank Launches Digital Centres for Deaf, Blind Students

Ecobank Ghana has commissioned ultramodern Digital Learning Centres at two schools as part of the 13th edition of Ecobank Day, demonstrating renewed commitment to removing barriers and promoting equitable education for students with disabilities....

Togo to Soon Start Construction of 22 Groynes to Shield Its Coastline

(Togo First) - Coastal protection work on the Gbodjomé-Agbodrafo-Goumoukopé segment in Togo is scheduled to enter its active phase on October 20, 2025. The project, valued at over 33 billion XOF(or 51 million euros), is part of the West Africa...

Togo, India Set to Deepen Ties Through Cultural Cooperation

(Togo First) - • India and Togo plan to expand their partnership into cultural cooperation, with upcoming projects promoting exchanges between artists from both nations. • The initiative strengthens Togo’s South-South diplomacy and India’s soft...

Economic inequalities deepen Africa’s fragility.

By Lincoln G. Peters Lome, Togo; October 13, 2025 – President Joseph N. Boakai has cautioned African leaders at the second edition of the Lomé Peace and Security forum held in Lome, Togo, that misinformation, climate change, and economic...