Dapaong

Dapaong (also known as Dapaongo or Dapango) is a city in northern Togo and prefecture seat of Tône in the Savanes Region, of which it is also the capital.

Dapaong plays a strategic role in the trade of West Africa because it occupies a privileged place for the transit of goods to Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger.

The economic center of the city is the market with various shops which sell fabric, millet and sheep.

The main sources of income are from craft manufacturing, trade and livestock, and agriculture (including cotton, millet, corn, tomato (dry season or against-season) and jatropha cultivation.

Supplied with electricity from the Akosombo Dam, the city however faces major difficulties in water sanitation and public health.