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Visa-free Africa can unleash a $3.3 trillion market and jobs – Mubarak, Team Lead, Trans-African Tourism and Unity Campaign
Business Day
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September 3, 2025
As Africa eyes the vast promise of the $3.3 trillion African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a bold Pan-African campaign is demanding visa-free travel across the continent to unlock trade, tourism, and job creation for its 1.4 billion...
Reforms: Is Nigeria customs courting another economic crisis?
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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September 2, 2025
In the name of reforms, the Nigerian economy has been taken through all manner of ‘trial-and-error’ initiatives in the past two years of the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration. While the Federal Government has kept battling the damaging...
Togo’s Young Generation Challenges Six Decades of Dynastic Rule
Inter Press Service
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September 2, 2025
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Democracy, Energy, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Labour, Press Freedom, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Credit: Pascal.Van, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Sep 2 2025...
Togo Trains 250 Cybersecurity Professionals to Combat Rising Digital Threats
News Ghana
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September 2, 2025
The Togolese government has launched an ambitious cybersecurity training program targeting 250 professionals as West African nations scramble to defend against escalating cyber attacks threatening public and private sector operations. The Ministry...
The sleeping Indian Chief on Togowagahni
The Loop - California
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Jon Hammond. A spring snow dusted the face of the sleeping chief. One of the most famous faces in the Tehachapi area doesn't belong to a person at all – at least not human-sized person. It is the silhouette of a sleeping Indian man visible in the...
Togo’s Lacs 1 commune reports CFA5.46bn budget over 2020-2024
Togo First
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(Togo First) - • Lacs 1 mobilized CFA2.59bn in revenue and spent CFA2.78bn over five years. • Funds backed projects in schools, health centers, markets, electrification, and sanitation. • Mayor urges residents to pay taxes to support growth,...
Togo to Inspect How 102 Municipalities Spent 2024 Local Development Funds
Togo First
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(Togo First) - Togo's Technical Secretariat of the Management Commission of the. Support Fund for Local Authorities (ST-CG-FACT) is launching a monitoring and evaluation mission to audit how municipalities managed the grants allocated to them in...
Nigerian banks lead African trade surge
Zawya
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When First Bank, Nigeria’s oldest lender, opened its first cross-border branch in Ghana in 1997, it was such a novel idea that it took seven years before United Bank for Africa (UBA) followed the example in 2004. Then the idea caught on, with...
Togo Extends $6.7 Million in Financial Inclusion Loans Over 12 Months
Togo First
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(Togo First) - • Togo issued 39,142 loans worth CFA4.06B from Aug 2024–Aug 2025. • Most funds backed income projects, SMEs and digital finance. • Repayment rate hit 94.9%; govt eyes wider national coverage. Togo’s financial inclusion sector...
Unleashing private sector investment, creating better jobs for Togo’s inclusive and sustainable growth
Panapress
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September 2, 2025
02 september 2025 - 08:08:24 MA/AR 168 Views Panafrican News Agency Lomé, Togo (PANA) - Togo has maintained robust and stable growth over the past decade but is now facing new challenges in a more uncertain regional and international context,...
Senegal taps regional development bank for digital transformation
Coingeek
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September 2, 2025
Homepage > News > Business > Senegal taps regional development bank for digital transformation Senegal has held talks with the West African Development Bank as it seeks new partners for its digital transformation agenda. The Minister for...
Local carriers struggle as foreign airlines rake in $1.7b from Nigerian market
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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September 2, 2025
• 18 foreign airlines offer 54,997 weekly seats out of Nigeria • Nigerian carriers struggle, command 10% market share • It’s time to reciprocate bilateral agreements, boost capacity of local carriers, experts say It’s boom time in the...
Stakeholders hail shea export ban, eye $6.5bn global market
The Sun Nigeria
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September 2, 2025
By Chinenye Anuforo Nigeria’s decision to halt the export of raw shea nuts for six months has been welcomed by industry stakeholders, who say the policy could reposition the country to enjoy a larger share of the $6.5 billion global shea market...
Togo: Solar project launched to increase rural energy access
ESI Africa
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September 1, 2025
Togo has launched the “Café Lumière” initiative, a solar-powered community electrification scheme, in a bid to accelerate progress towards universal energy access. The pilot phase was inaugurated on 26 August, in six villages of Haho prefecture,...
Welcome to In Business Madison’s second annual Power 100 list!
In Business - Wisconsin
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We’re pleased to highlight the leaders in Wisconsin’s Capital Region who are driving economic growth and helping shape our community into a thriving place to work, learn and live. Whether they work in health care, finance, technology, education,...
Africa needs fairer financing to withstand global shocks – Ato Forson
Business and Financial Times
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September 1, 2025
By Kizito CUDJOE The finance minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has cautioned that Africa risks becoming an “unintended casualty” of global inflation, rising interest rates and geopolitical shocks and pressed for concrete mechanisms to secure...
Nigerian Agency Confirms Pirates' Attempt To Hijack Maltese Chemical Tanker Off Togo
Sahara Reporters
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The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has said that the attempted piracy attack on the Maltese-flagged chemical tanker, MT Endo Ponente, off the coast of Lome, Togo, has been foiled. The agency confirmed in a statement...
Togolese Protests Seeking President Gnassingbé’s Ouster Blocked
Mint
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August 31, 2025
(Bloomberg) -- Security forces in Togo on Saturday blocked a protest by opposition parties and civil groups against the continued rule of President Faure Gnassingbé and his family, now in its 58th year. Police and military personnel descended on...
How Nigeria can strengthen business competitiveness and attract private investment
Nairametrics
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September 1, 2025
Over the past three decades, Nigeria has anchored its socio-economic development strategy on the active participation of the private sector across virtually all sectors of the economy. This policy orientation has been shaped by two key factors:...
Chinese group Lesso eyes Togo for West African expansion
Togo First
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(Togo First) - • Chinese construction materials giant Lesso plans to open a subsidiary in Togo. • Talks with Togo’s Chamber of Commerce focused on partnerships with local firms. • The move aims to boost the construction sector, create jobs, and...