Togo IMF: Country Report 2008

Source: IMF

Country Report No. 08/146: Togo: Request for Three - Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility - Staff Report; Staff Statement; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Togo
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21932.0

Togo: Three IMF reports

Source: IMF

Press Release: IMF Executive Board Approves US$108.4 Million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility Arrangement for Togo
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2008/pr0890.htm

* Country’s Policy Intentions Documents — Togo: Letter of Intent, Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, and Technical Memorandum of Understanding, March 28, 2008
http://www.imf.org/External/NP/LOI/2008/tgo/032808.pdf

Country Report No. 08/144: Togo: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.cfm?sk=21925.0

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Togolese musician receives “Best African Rocker’’ award

Source: APA

Togolese musician receives “Best African Rocker’’ award

APA - Lome (Togo) Togolese singer Jimi Hope received the New York-based International Music Promotion’s 2007 “Best African Rocker” Award Thursday in Lome.

Togolese Communication and Culture minister Corneluis Aidam gave the prize to Hope on behalf of the government.

“The prize is very important to me. It marks the beginning of recognition and is for all the advancing Togolese. We have to pray for other artists to come back with other awards,” Hope told APA.

IMP awarded the prize to Hope on 4 August 2007 in the United States after a series of concerts in seven US cities.

Jimi Hope, whose real name is Koffi Senaya, was born on 12 October 1956 in Lome.

The prize consecrates the 40-year career of “Africa’s first rocker”, who has authored a dozen albums with a rock-and-blues blend.

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Togo: African fashion designers take part in Lome competition

Source: APA

African fashion designers take part in Lome competition

APA – Lome (Togo) Twenty-seven fashion and dress designers of nine African countries and one European take part in a fashion competition called “Alokpa” on Saturday evening in Lome, APA learnt from organisers.

“It is a fashion competition for designers of the continent and it is a platform which allows them to show their “Alopka” which means in Mina (language spoken in south Togo) their touch and know-how,” Nini Nicoue alias Ayanick, a Togolese fashion designer and organiser of the competition, told APA.

During this night, models will catwalk with creations of the 27 designers chosen for the competition. After, the jury will reward the best.

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Togo: Comic actors perform in houses in Togolese capital

Source: African Press Agency

Togolese, French and Canadian comedy actors on Saturday started a weeklong series of drama performances in houses in Lomé, a source close to the organisers told APA.

The event, dubbed “At home!” will be staged under a home drama, “a concept we wish to develop in Togo to raise the public interest”, the manager of the Togolese 3 C band and co-organiser of the project, Rodrigue Norman, told APA.

“We seek to address the life where we come from” Rodrigue Norman said, noting that the performance will be played at home among private people”.

Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa

Source: ISN Publishing

Author(s): Jean Bourdon, Markus Frölich, Katharina Michaelowa
Publisher(s): Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS), Zurich, Switzerland
Date of publication: 4 May 2007
Issue number: 28
Format: PDF
Pages: 67
URL: www.cis.ethz.ch
Series: CIS Working Papers
Description: This paper addresses the policy of Niger, Togo and Mali to recruit large numbers of teachers using fixed-term contracts instead of civil servant positions, analyzing the impact on educational quality by estimating non-parametrically the quantile treatment effects. The paper explores the link between incentives, teacher contracts and working conditions, introduces the available data and presents the evaluation of the impact of the contract teacher program on educational quality.

General note: © 2007 Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS)
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West Africa: Four West African Countries Join Forces to Fight Avian Influenza

Seen on AI.COMMuniqué - Communication Action, Thinking, and Resources on Avian Influenza July 2007

West Africa: Four West African Countries Join Forces to Fight Avian Influenza This article details the cross-border meeting of the top veterinary officials from Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo, which took place in June 2007 in Ghana. At the meeting, officials agreed to join forces to look for common solutions to combat the spread of avian influenza. The veterinary officers discussed the health communication aspects related to the care of animals, as well as the sharing of samples and compensation for culled birds.
More at: http://www.comminit.com/avianinfluenza/st2007/thinking-2294.html

Togo: new outbreak of bird flu confirmed

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Lome - Togo has discovered outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on two poultry farms near its border with Ghana and closed markets in the area to stop it spreading, Agriculture Minister Yves Mado Nagou said on Sunday.

Togo, which declared its first outbreak of the most deadly strain of avian influenza in June, found new cases in the past fortnight on farms at Adetikope, 20km from the capital Lome, and Aflao, an outlying western suburb of Lome near the Ghana border, Nagou said.

Nagou said poultry on both farms had been culled, the farms placed under quarantine and all poultry markets in the country’s southern coastal region - its most heavily populated - ordered to close.

Authorities hoped to re-open markets as soon as this week, he told reporters.