Group petitions Minerals Commission over exportation of sand from farmlands to Togo
A group, Concerned Citizens of Klikor (Traditional Area), Ketu South, has petitioned Ghana’s Minerals Commission to take steps to stop sand mining in the area for export into Togo. The group said this act, being perpetrated by some companies which had taken major proportions of the area’s agriculture lands at Kpoglu, Bodzakope, Dzogbenu, Tsivoli, Akato […]
Aflao Traditional Council pays courtesy call on Ghana’s Ambassador to Togo
A delegation from the Aflao Traditional Council has paid a visit to Ghana’s Ambassador to the Republic of Togo, Mr Kofi Mensah Demitia in Lome. The delegation was led by President of the Aflao Traditional Council and Paramount Chief of the area, Torgbiga Amenya Fiti V. The visit was to hold talks with the envoy on […]
Volta Regional Health Directorate on high alert following outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Togo
The Volta Regional Health Directorate has heightened its surveillance due to the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A, H5N1 in Lomé, Togo. Acting Volta Regional Director of Health, Dr. Senanu Djokoto, who disclosed this in an interview with the GNA said the outbreak is a major concern to the directorate as the region shared […]
Togo declares state of Security emergency in the North
SOURCE: Africa News Togo‘s government on Monday, June 13, 2022 declared a “state of security emergency” in its northern border region to give the armed forces more flexibility to deal with the threat of jihadist attacks. Eight Togolese were killed in May in a northern town near the border with Burkina Faso, in an attack […]
Togo deploys troops to contain security threats from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger
About 15 assailants and eight soldiers were killed during a “terrorist” attack last week in the north of Togo. Security Minister, General Damehame Yark said the troops have been deployed to the north of the country to contain a security threat pushing south from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger where groups linked to al-Qaeda and […]
Togo opens land border with Ghana
Togo on Monday night opened its land border with Ghana, coming more than 50 days after Ghana reopened its land borders to neighbouring countries. When Graphic Online’s Volta Regional correspondent Alberto Mario Noretti visited the border post in Lome at about 8:30 am Tuesday [May 17, 2022] the metal gates which were closed between the […]
Ghana, Togo to construct 50 boundary pillars from Aflao to Akanu
By Franklin ASARE-DONKOH The governments of the Republic of Ghana and Togo have agreed to construct fifty (50) boundary pillars along the international boundary lines from Aflao to Akanu to reaffirm the boundaries between both countries. A collaborative effort led by the Ghana Boundary Commission (GBC) and its counterparts from Togo is ensuring a common […]