The country’s the last major constitutional change was in 1992
The people of Togo are feeling disillusioned with the country’s opposition leaders, saying that they were "deceived" and "disappointed"
Governance is a family business but a new generation of protesters is trying to disrupt the old order
Opposition ire over the president’s extended term in office spilled over into the streets this week
As the opposition call to unseat President Faure Gnassingbé, demonstrations on both sides have intensified in the region
The Africa-Israel summit in Lomé is postponed as citizens protest Tongo president’s repressive rule.
Togo’s beleaguered leader is the only would-be president-for-life left in the region
A huge rally for constitutional reform has taken place in Togo, a country presided over by one family for the past half-century.
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/ 6 September 2008
Togolese Prime Minister Komlan Mally has resigned less than a year after taking office.
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/ 14 November 2007
Togo’s Prime Minister, Yawovi Agboyibo, on Tuesday said he had tendered his resignation to President Faure Gnassingbe ahead of the formation of a new, post-elections government. ”I was appointed for a specific mission, to conduct the organisation of the parliamentary polls with the Independent National Electoral Commission,” he said.
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/ 16 October 2007
Landmark weekend parliamentary elections in Togo were ”free, fair and open”, observers from the Economic Community of West African States concluded in a report on Tuesday. ”In spite of a few shortfalls, the legislative elections on Sunday were free, fair and open,” stated the 15-nation group.
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/ 14 October 2007
The people of Togo go to the polls on Sunday to choose MPs in elections where all the main political parties are represented, including Gilchrist Olympio’s Union of Forces for Change (UFC). After almost two decades of election boycotts, this is the first time that Olympio’s UFC is challenging the ruling Rally of Togolese People.
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/ 11 October 2007
Togo holds parliamentary elections on Sunday that, if free and fair, could convince international donors that the small West African state has fully embraced democratic rule. The European Union, once Togo’s biggest donor, froze most aid to the former French colony in 1993.