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14 unusual facts about Lomé


Atlantic Bank Group

The holding company for the group is Atlantic Financial Group, based in Lome, Togo.

Fábio de Jesus Oliveira

He also played for Togo against the Ghanaian club Asante Kotoko in a friendly match on June 29, 2003 in Stade de Kégué, Lomé.

Grand Landlodge of the Freemasons of Germany

In the course of the last years individual lodges have been established in Lome/Togo, Riga/Latvia and Monaco, of which only the first one in Lome is still a member of the Grand Landlodge.

Human trafficking in Togo

The Ministry of Social Affairs, the Ministry of Child Protection, and The National Committee for the Reception and Reinsertion of Trafficked Children assisted victims primarily by alerting two NGOs in Lomé that provide immediate victim care, and by working with these organizations to return victims to their home communities.

Jeannette D. Ahonsou

She holds an English Degree from the University of Benin (current University of Lomé) and is a retired English instructor.

John Gunther Dean

From 1956-1958 he served as a political officer in Vientiane, Laos, and then from 1959-1960 he opened the first American consulate in Lomé, Togo.

Ken Bugul

From 1986 to 1993, she worked for the NGO IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Foundation) in Nairobi, Kenya; Brazzaville, Congo; and Lomé, Togo.

Robert Ajavon

Robert Ajavon (born April 10, 1910 in Lome, Togo) was a Togolese politician who served in the French Senate from 1952-1958 .

Social risk management

The process of application was launched with a workshop in Lomé for key stakeholders from the government and civil society in November 1998.

Spriggs Payne Airport

This was quickly replaced by the services of its affiliate, ASKY Airlines which began operating from Spriggs-Payne, flying initially to Accra, Banjul and Abidjan with onward service to its hub at Lome.

Tabi Bonney

Bonney was born in Lomé, Togo, to musician Itadi Bonney and Jo, a teacher from Washington, D.C. who had been stationed in Lomé through the Peace Corps.

Théophile Nata

He studied French and literature for two years at the Higher Education Centre of Lomé, Togo, as well as at Abidjan University in Côte d'Ivoire and the Sorbonne.

Togolese parliamentary election, 2013

On the first day, several thousand protesters commenced a march in Lome's Be neighbourhood and then headed to the commercial district of Deckon, where 100 police officers were deployed.

Zanzan Atte-Oudeyi

Mohammed Zanzan Atte-Oudeyi (commonly known simply as Zanzan) (born September 2, 1980 in Lomé) is a Togolese footballer.


Africa West Airlines

Africa West operates long-haul flights from the hub, Lomé (LFW) to Liege (LGG), Dubai (DXB) and Johannesburg.

Baguida

The village of Baguida was created at the end of the 17th century, by a hunter named Sani, a former resident of , today one of Lomé's neighborhoods.

Economy of Togo

The West African Development Bank (BOAD), which is associated with UEMOA, is based in Lomé.

Geoffrey Kwame Tomtania

Through his efforts, they organized two mass evangelisms in the major cities of Lome, and Kara; and became Bonnke’s interpreter before the late president of Togo, Gnassingbé Eyadéma.

Henri Dupuy de Lôme

Towards the end of his life, Dupuy de Lôme worked on a project for an electrical submarine, largely inspired from the experimental results of the submarine Plongeur.

Jean-Pierre Fabre

Born in Lomé in 1952, Fabre studied in Togo before attending university in Lille.

Kodjoviakopé

Kodjoviakope is a neighborhood of Lomé is on the western side of the city, bounded by the Route Circulaire and the Togo-Ghana border.

Pierre-Antoine Dossevi

Pierre-Antoine Dossevi (born 17/01/52, Lomé, French Togoland) is a retired Togolese footballer.

Tommy Sylvestre

Born in Kinshasa, Sylvestre moved to Lome and began playing club football for local side Étoile Filante de Lomé.