Event in Togo
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BENIN, 2015/09/29
The reinstallation of Burkina Faso's Transition President Michel Kafando on Sept. 23 by West African regional leaders marked the end of a one-week coup that had been carried out by former guards of the country's ex-President Blaise Compaore.
Given the abuses committed by Boko Haram terrorist group in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad, leaders from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) vowed to ensure the Burkina Faso crisis does not evolve into a major crisis in the sub-region.
In their swiftness to replace the transition government, the sub-regional leaders, under pressure from Burkinabes, used all the necessary means to ensure the transition government is restored.
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BOTSWANA, 2015/07/29
Barack Obama has chided African leaders who refuse to give up power in his initial speech at the African Union headquarters by a US president.
The scolding came in the course of his address on Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to the 54-member continental bloc.
"Africa's democratic evolution is as well at risk at the same time as leaders refuse to step aside at the same time as their terms end," Obama said. "No one should be president for life."
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ITALY, 2014/05/27
The Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Improvment(IFAD) has given Togo a loan of US$39.6 million for a project to promote rural entrepreneurship, according to an IFAD statement received in Lomé on Friday.
The agreement was signed on Friday in the Italian capital, Rome, by Adji Otèth Ayassor, Togolese minister of Finance and Economy and Kanayo F. Nwanze, IFAD president.
It aims at promoting the development of rural entrepreneurship, creation of sustained jobs and generating revenues for youths from rural communities in the West African country, the statement said.
The project, which is co-financed by IFAD and the Togolese government, will be implemented by the Togolese ministry of Agriculture, Livestock Farming and Fishing.
