Tongo News » Savanes News Tongo » Savanes: Togo Plans Complaint System for $62.5 Million Women's Empowerment Project
Togo plans to introduce a complaint-handling system in communities covered by the Sub-Saharan Africa Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Solidarity and inclusion in the Savanes region of Togo: refugee women and host communities join forces for economic empowerment
Togo is receiving an increasing number of displaced people from Burkina Faso. According to a government census conducted in December 2023, the country is now hosting over 37,000 refugees, nearly 77% ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Togo - U.S.$1 Million Grant to Address the Humanitarian Emergency in the Savanes Region
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a grant of US$1 million to Togo to support victims of the humanitarian crisis affecting the Savanes Region in the north of the ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Togo Extends State of Emergency Due to Militant Attacks
The West African nation of Togo has extended a state of emergency in its northern Savanes region for another six months due to continued attacks by Islamist militants. A six-month state of emergency ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Togo Begins 2026 Grain Purchases, Targets CFAF 2.6 Billion in Spending
Togo's National Food Security Agency (ANSAT) began its annual grain-buying program late last week, with plans to spend CFAF 2.6 billion on about ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Decent work for social cohesion and community resilience in Togo
Savanes Region, Togo (ILO News) - The Savanes region in northern Togo is facing a convergence of challenges that disproportionately affect its most vulnerable populations. Limited access to essential ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Togo parliament extends regional state of emergency by 12 months
Togo’s National Assembly Thursday voted in favor of extending a state of security emergency in the Savanes region for another year. The measure follows a recent increase in incursions from terrorist ...
News Tongo » Savanes: From northern Togo to Mali, the youth exodus in search of gold and a future
‘One morning, I found his room empty.’ Increasing numbers of young people from Togo’s arid Savanes region are trying their luck in West Africa’s gruelling and hazardous artisanal gold mines.
News Tongo » Savanes: Civilian-state security cooperation in Benin and Togo: a double-edged sword
Attacks by violent extremists in Benin and Togo are rising. Since the first incidents in 2019 in Benin and 2021 in Togo, insurgents’ tactics have expanded from targeting defence forces to planting ...
News Tongo » Savanes: Togo ups its ante against terror threats
Until early 2018, violent extremism in West Africa had been largely confined to the Sahel region. Since then fears of a spillover into neighbouring coastal states, including Togo, have been rising.