Togo - Geography and Weather!!

Togo lies near the Greenwich Prime Meridian and is about 7 degrees north of the Equator. It is surrounded by Ghana on the West, Benin on the East, and Burkina Faso on the north. The country is a sliver about 70 miles wide and 300+ miles long!!

HBB is in southern Togo, just north of Mount Agou and the Hospital of Hope is in the far north at Mango.

We are in the midst of "harmattan" which refers to the trade winds from the northeast that blow down over the Sahara Desert onto West Africa during dry season, bringing a lot of dust and making the skies hazy. The daily high temps here are in the mid 90s and the lows in the mid 70s. This is not as hot as northern Togo or Niger but we are nonetheless very thankful for the ceiling fans and the wall air conditioning unit that we run for 3 hours at bedtime! Here is the sunrise over the hills as we take our morning walk up the mountain -we can look directly at the sun in the haze!!