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PRESENTATION OFFICIAL NAME : REPUBLIC OF TOGO GEOGRAPHICAL
SITUATION : Togo is enclosed between Ghana
in the west, Benin in the east, Burkina Faso in the north and an Atlantic
Ocean front of less than 37 miles. AREA : 21 924 sq miles CLIMATE : Tropical type, the south of Togo has
two rain seasons (March/July - September/October). The north is marked by
a single rain season from April to October. CAPITAL : LOME POPULATION : 4,269,500 inhabitants (estimate) MAIN CITIES : Lomé, Sokodé, Kara, Kpalimé LANGUAGES - ETHNICAL GROUPS - RELIGIONS :
Religions : with a majority of animists, Togo also numbers 22% of christians and 12% of muslims.
HEALTH - EDUCATION : POLITICAL DATA : Chief of State, President
of the Republic, President of the Counsel of Ministers : S.E.M. Gnassingbé
EYADEMA
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS :
FINANCIAL BACKERS : BAD, BOAD, BCEAO, FAGACE, WORLD BANK, AFD,…
ECONOMY AND FINANCE : CURRENCY : Franc CFA (1 € = 655.96 FCFA)GDP : 255,675 million FCFA (2000) GDP DISTRIBUTION : Primary sector : 42,2% - Secondary sector : 20,1% - Tertiary sector : 37,7 %
AGRICULTURE roughly insures the Togolese nourishment security; the rural sector feeds some 80% of the population. Cultures are diverse: millet, sorghum, corn, manioc, yam, cocoa, coffee, karité; cotton is the main industrial crop and the first agricultural export product. BREEDING & FISHING : Togo is not a traditional
breeding country, and the production covers only a part of its needs. Currently
the Togolese consume 33 pounds of fish per head and per year, four times the
meat consumption. There are three large foreign companies settled in Togo,
but fishing is mainly practised through manual ways. MINING & ENERGY : Phosphate and hydroelectricity
are Togo's two industrial assets. Phosphate represents over 40% of the export
revenue. Phosphate is extracted by the OTP (Office Togolais des Phosphates).
The government has undertaken a diversification policy in order to reduce
dependence on this one product, the country having other mineral ressources:
marble, attapulgite, manganese, limestone, iron, peat...
The MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY is widely dominated by
food processing industries, based on transformation of local raw materials,
followed by textile and leather, chemical, mechanical, electrical, paper and
publishing... industries. The PUBLIC
WORKS SECTOR : Thanks to the rehabilitation, maintenance and road
construction programs planned for by the PAS and the PDU (Urban Develpment
Project financed by the World Bank), the public works sector offers prospects
to enterprises approved by the Agetur (Urban Works Execution Agency)...
HARBOUR INFRASTRUCTURES : The LOME harbour is
the only deepwater harbour of the sub-region (drawing 42.65 feet of water);
it bears infrastructures and equipment enabling various types of traffic. NIAMTOUGO is the second airport situated in the north of Togo. ROAD & RAILROAD NETWORKS : An important rehabilitation
program for road maintenance has been put in the works and initiated
in 1998; it has already enabled the completion of the rehabilitation
of several sections. The north-south axis, which links Lomé to Dapaong
and to the Burkinabese border, constitutes for Togo a significant
asset for commercial trading. The BANKING SECTOR appears relatively protected until 1991 and despite the fact that the disorders occurring from 1951 on have affected it, the banking system has been spared from the severe crisis suffered in 1994 by the area's other countries. Currently, the Togolese banking system comprises 11 credit establishments, among them 5 commercial banks : UTB (previously a Crédit Lyonnais subsidiary), the BTCI (a BNP subsidiary), the BIA (owned by the Belgolaise), ECOBANK (private West-African shareholders) and the BTD (Banque Togolaise de Développement) owned by the State. TELECOMMUNICATIONS : Togo / Telecom, whose privatization is planned for the beginning of 2001, was born out of the splitting up of the Office Nationales des Postes since 1997. Togo / Telecom has benefited from several lines of credit, namely for a telephone networks extension project, bringing the number of networks from 32 400 to 108 500 by the end of 2008.
PRIVATIZATIONS - TOURISM - HISTORY AND CIVILIZATION - ADDRESS BOOK…
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The official language is French; éwé and kabyé are
taught as national languages. The mina dialect is reserved for trading.
PRIMARY SECTOR
Industrial
enterprises are concentrated in the maritime region, and besides
the large publicly owned enterprises, the Togolese industrial fabric
comprises mainly small and medium-size companies. An "Industrial
development action plan" has been elaborated with Onudi's support.
The
LOME AIRPORT has a capacity of 700,000 passengers per
year and can handle three large carriers simultaneously. 12 airline
companies handle flights towards 36 destinations. In addition, a
duty-free industrial airport zone of more than 10 acres is available
to harbour industries and services using air transport.
