The Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), one of the groups demanding independence for the western part of the former Togoland, denounces the exploitation of mineral resources on their territory, an act that activists deem illegal.
After two years of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the great pilgrimage to Mecca will take place this year for the Togolese Muslim community. “The quota reserved for our country goes from 2,225 in 2019 to 1,098 this year,” said the Minister of Territorial Administration, Payadowa Boukpessi.
A Togolese gendarme was fatally stabbed on Thursday by a Chadian trader who also injured a policeman. The Minister of Security and Civil Protection of Togo, Gal Yark Damehame, commenting on the case, communicated the circumstances of the tragedy.
Ethiopian Airlines officially launched on Wednesday, June 1, a new connection to Washington DC from Lomé. An inaugural flight took place in this direction, following a ceremony organized at Gnassingbé Eyadema International Airport (AIGE).
Togo is strengthening its fight against maritime piracy. The country validated its Standardized and Harmonized Operating Procedures Document last week, becoming at the same time the first country in French-speaking West Africa to adopt this provision.
Fifteen terrorists were killed by Togolese soldiers during the attack perpetrated last week in northern Togo, the government announced on Wednesday evening.
The United States of America has “strongly” condemned the deadly terrorist attack that claimed the life of eight Togolese soldiers in the north of the country on the night of May 10-11, 2022.
The European Union (EU) has become one of Togo’s first partners to express its indignation following the murderous attack on the Togolese army on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday.
A new terrorist attack took place in the north of Togo, at the operational outpost of Kpinkankandi in the canton of Koundjouaré (prefecture Kpendjal), we learned from sources this Wednesday.
As part of the “West African Police Information System (WAPIS)” program, the government of Togo, represented by its Minister of Security and Civil Protection, General Damehane YARK, proceeded on April 29, 2022, to the inauguration of the Information Center of Togo Police (CIPT), at the headquarters of the Ministry of Interior and Civil Protection.
