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Bank and Public Holidays for Togo

Related and neighboring countries: Africa Bénin Burkina Faso Ghana

Togo bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

Date in 2012

Holiday Name
Sun New Year's Day
Mon New Year Holiday
Fri Liberation Day
Mon Easter Monday
Fri Independence Day
Tue Labour Day
Thu Ascension Day
Mon Whit Monday
Thu Martyrs' Day
Wed Assumption Day
Sun Korité (End of Ramadan)
Thu Tabaski (Feast of Sacrifice)
Thu All Saints' Day
Tue Christmas Day

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Recent News and Updates

30 Dec 2011 (Primature du Togo-Lome) The government of Togo has announced that Monday, January 2, 2012, had been declared a one-off non-working public holiday in Togo.  02 Nov 2011 (Union Musulmane du Togo-UMT) The President of the Union of Togolese Muslims (UMT), El Hadj Inoussa Bouraïma. has announced the date of the upcoming Tabaski (aka. Eid al-Adha or Feast of Sacrifice) public holiday as Sunday, November 6, 2011.  12 Nov 2010 (Union Musulmane du Togo-UMT) The Union of Togolese Muslims (UMT) has announced the date of the upcoming Tabaski (aka. Eid al-Adha or Feast of Sacrifice) public holiday as Tuesday, November 16, 2010.  03 Mar 2010 (Etiame-Lome) The government of Togo has declared the date of the upcoming Presidential elections, Thursday, March 4, 2010, as a one-off electoral public holiday.  10 Jan 2008 (Ghanaian Chronicle-Accra) A press statement released last night from the office of government Spokesman, Pascal Bodjona, in Lome announced that the government has suspended the celebration of the 13th of January as a national holiday.  15 Sep 2007 (AFP) The government declared three days of national mourning for the victims of recent torrential rains and floods. In addition, the government postponed by one month the start of the school year, which was supposed to have started on September 17.  04 Jun 2007 (Business In Africa) Late on Monday, Togo's President decreed three days of national mourning, following the helicopter crash that killer Togo's Sports Minister, Atipe Kwako, and 18 Togolese nationals who had been attending the African cup of Nations football elimination match.  20 Mar 2006 (Agence de Presse SYFIA-Lomé) The Togolese government has declared a public holiday, on Wednesday, March 29, 2006, on account of the full eclipse of the Sun that is expected on that date.  09 Oct 2005 (BBC Sports) Earlier today, President Faure Gnassingbe declared that Monday, October 10, 2005, would be a one-off paid public holiday throughout Togo, to celebrate the national team's qualification for the 2006 World Cup finals.  12 Jan 2003 (Radio Togo-Lome) Togo's President, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, has declared Tuesday, January 14, 2003, as a one-off additional non-working public holiday throughout Togo.  More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Togo public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.


Background Information

Governing Law: The list of official public holidays in Togo was originally set out in the Loi No.60-32 du 2 novembre 1960, following independence. The dispositions of that text were amended by the Ordonnance no 79-10 du 2 mars 1979 réglementant le régime des fêtes légales (Journal officiel, 1979-04-01). Most of the dates of the 1960 and 1979 laws were cancelled by the 1987 Loi No 87-08 du 9 juin 1987 réglementant le régime des fêtes légales. Most recently these were amended and regulated by the Loi n° 2006-010 du 13 décembre 2006 portant Code du travail and Article 84 Title 5 of the Togolese Constitution of 1992 as amended by the Loi No 2002-029 du 31 décembre 2002.  In a manner similar to that of Gabon and Equitorial Guinea, beginning in 2007, the government of Togo has begun to rotate the city where the main celebrations of Independence Day are to be held .  Togo International Codes TG and TGO (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .tg (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Togo information and news: Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) (Togo central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Togo maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Togo), and Wikipedia (includes Togo commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).


Footnotes
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Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Togo, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Togo, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Togo. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

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Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Togo that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

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Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Togo were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.


Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Togo, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Togo, before planning any trip to Togo. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.



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