Greater Lomé's long-planned fecal sludge treatment programme moved back into the headlines on 2 October 2026, when regional outlet Togo First reported that Hungary's ambassador to Togo, Tamás Fehér Endre, met President of the Council Faure Gnassingbé in Lomé on Friday, 25 September 2026, to push two fecal sludge treatment plants — first agreed in a January 2025 memorandum with Hungarian firm Pureco — toward construction.
Key takeaways
- Two fecal sludge treatment plants are planned for Aképé and Djagblé in Greater Lomé, under a memorandum of understanding signed on 22 January 2025 with Pureco (Togo First).
- Hungary's ambassador to Togo, Tamás Fehér Endre, raised the project with the President of the Council in Lomé on 25 September 2026 (Togo First).
- Pureco will design and build the two facilities, using a train of mechanical pretreatment, biological treatment, clarification and sludge dewatering already deployed in Ghana at Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale (Togo First).
- Project sites in Aképé and Djagblé were still to be confirmed through studies planned under the partnership (Togo First).
- The plants are intended to serve households and facilities not connected to sewer networks in the capital, sitting inside the Greater Lomé Sanitation Master Plan (Togo First).
What happened
According to Togo First, the renewed diplomatic push came more than a year after Togo and Hungary signed a memorandum of understanding on 22 January 2025 with Hungarian company Pureco to modernise sanitation infrastructure in the capital. That agreement covers the design and build of two fecal sludge treatment plants at Aképé and Djagblé, with the sites still to be confirmed through studies planned under the partnership.
After the 25 September 2026 meeting, the Hungarian diplomat said the talks focused on the construction of sustainable wastewater treatment plants in Greater Lomé (Togo First). Pureco's reference technology, already in service in Ghana at Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale, runs fecal sludge through mechanical pretreatment, biological treatment, clarification and sludge dewatering — a train aimed at households and facilities not connected to sewer networks, in line with the Greater Lomé Sanitation Master Plan (Togo First).
The project's next step is to move from the January 2025 memorandum to construction of the two plants, and it is set to run alongside other government sanitation and flood-control works, including the Togo Urban Development Project, PAUT 2 (Togo First).
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Plants | Two fecal sludge treatment plants at Aképé and Djagblé |
| EPC / technology partner | Pureco (Hungary) |
| Original agreement | MoU signed 22 January 2025 |
| Diplomatic push reported | 25 September 2026 meeting in Lomé |
| Treatment train | Mechanical pretreatment → biological treatment → clarification → sludge dewatering |
Specification read
For a buyer or engineer sizing this kind of facility, the takeaway is the unit process the source actually describes: a fecal sludge train, not a sewered municipal works. Togo First reports a sequence of mechanical pretreatment, biological treatment, clarification and sludge dewatering — i.e. the inlet screening and grit removal stage, an aerobic biological stage (typical candidates being a sequencing batch reactor, moving-bed biofilm reactor, or membrane bioreactor), a clarifier for solids–liquid separation, and a mechanical dewatering step to bring cake to a stackable solids content. The article links the project to households and facilities not connected to sewer networks, which points buyers toward packaged fecal sludge receiving and thickening modules rather than a fine-screening headworks for raw sewage.
No flow figure, population equivalent, plant footprint, contract value, or commissioning date is reported in the supplied source, so a precise MLD cannot be derived from the material on hand. The two-plant footprint, the dewatering step and the Ghana reference sites at Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale together signal a cluster of mid-capacity decentralized fecal sludge plants sized to a few hundred cubic metres per day each, but the underlying number is not in the source and must be confirmed from the partnership studies still pending.
If your plant looks like a municipal or peri-urban fecal sludge reception facility receiving tanker deliveries from unsewered catchments, with high total solids on the inlet and a need for stabilized cake for reuse or landfill, this tender class is the one to track: a packaged pretreatment-to-dewatering train, biological stage, and biosolids handling on a single fenced site, delivered as a turnkey build by a single EPC partner.
Buyers scoping similar decentralized sludge lines in West Africa can compare the design philosophy against our Sludge Treatment and Water Purification product hubs, and cross-read the Ghana references in our Domestic Sewage Treatment in Ghana: 2026 Engineering & Buyer's Guide and Textile Wastewater Treatment in Ghana (2026 Buyer's & Engineering Guide). The municipal sanitation context in Greater Lomé also lines up with our Municipal applications page.
FAQ
How many plants are planned for Greater Lomé?
Two fecal sludge treatment plants, at Aképé and Djagblé, under a memorandum of understanding signed on 22 January 2025 between Togo and Hungarian company Pureco, according to Togo First. The two sites were still to be confirmed through studies planned under the partnership.
What unit processes will the plants use?
The reported train is mechanical pretreatment, biological treatment, clarification and sludge dewatering — the same configuration Pureco is described as running at its Ghana sites in Kumasi, Takoradi and Tamale (Togo First). No reactor type is specified in the source.
Who is the engineering, procurement and construction partner?
Pureco, a Hungarian company, is named as the designer and builder of the two facilities (Togo First). Contract value, plant capacity and construction lead time were not reported in the supplied source.
What is the project's current status?
As reported on 2 October 2026, the project has moved from the January 2025 memorandum to a renewed diplomatic push, and the source describes the next step as moving from the memorandum to construction of the two plants (Togo First). A commissioning date is not given.
