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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Africa investor (Ai) are joining forces to launch a digitally empowered eTrade initiative to enable the digitisation of five million micro-, s... Read more
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President: Faure Gnassingbé
Prime Minister: Komi Sélom Klassou
Capital city: Lomé
Languages: French (official, the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
Population, persons: 7,889,094 (2018)
Area, sq km: 54,390
GDP per capita, US$: 679 (2018)
GDP, billion current US$: 5.4 (2018)
GINI index: 43.1 (2015)
Ease of Doing Business rank: 97
