The European Union (EU) delegation in Togo has provided new equipment to support civilians in the country’s northern region, which continues to face terrorist threats. In late October 2025, the EU delivered equipment worth about 115 million CFA francs to the Emergency Program for the Savanes Region (PURS) and to the country’s defense and security forces.
The shipment, procured through a global program run in partnership with the United Nations, includes computers, educational materials, and about 60 mine detectors. The equipment complements earlier training and awareness campaigns aimed at protecting communities from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used by armed groups.
This new aid builds on the EU’s ongoing support for the government’s PURS initiative, which the bloc has backed since 2022. The program aims to strengthen community resilience across key sectors such as health, water, energy, education, and agriculture.
In 2022, the EU and Germany jointly contributed €5 million (over 3 billion CFA francs) to PURS, funding projects to improve living conditions in affected communities.
More recently, the EU selected Togo as one of four West African coastal countries, along with Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana, to receive a new €10 million financial package to help manage rising migration pressures stemming from conflicts destabilizing the central Sahel region.