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/ 29 December 2010
An Angolan court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 24 years in jail for taking part in a deadly attack on a bus carrying Togo’s football team.
Opposition legislators boycotted the opening of Togo’s parliamentary year to protest the re-election of President Faure Gnassingbe.
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/ 2 February 2010
Togo plans to fight its suspension from the next two editions of the African Cup of Nations after the team withdrew from January’s tournament.
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/ 13 January 2010
Cabinda’s separatists have won new notoriety with their deadly attack on Togo’s football team, embarrassing Angola’s government, analysts say.
The Hawks of Togo have so far failed to get past the group stage of the African Nations Cup in six appearances, but they could well spring a surprise.
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/ 6 September 2008
Togolese Prime Minister Komlan Mally has resigned less than a year after taking office.
At least nine people have been killed in torrential floods that have submerged entire villages in Togo.
World Cup giantkillers Togo got a taste of their own medicine on Sunday when crashing out 2-1 to minnows Swaziland in a 2010 World Cup-African Nations Cup qualifier.
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/ 2 February 2008
Mali and Sevilla forward Frederic Kanoute was named Africa Player of 2007 on Friday, beating Chelsea clubmates Michael Essien and Didier Drogba to become the first European-born player to earn the honour. Nigeria’s Cynthia Uwak was chosen as the best women’s player ahead of South Africa’s Modise Portia.
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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.
Togo’s euphoria at qualifying for their first World Cup was tempered by a dismal performance at the African Nations Cup which indicates they will struggle in Germany. The Togolese accounted for 2002 World Cup quarterfinalists Senegal in a huge upset but were brought down to earth with a resounding bump after failing to win a point in Egypt.
”May our ancestors protect you and guide your every step,” newspaper editor and voodoo high priest Togbui Gnagblondjro III whispers to the children who have come to pay their respects. He is standing in front of the offices of his paper Tingo Tingo, one of the best-selling dailies in Togo, as he speaks the blessing, proving that he has little trouble combining his twin roles.
For children’s rights activists like Deleli Kpeglo, efforts to combat child trafficking in Togo have often produced dispiriting results. ”We’ve tried everything possible, but such efforts have not been effective. Child traffickers keep coming back and taking away more children,” says Kpeglo, who works for Plan Togo, an NGO.
Newly-elected Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe and various opposition leaders were in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Thursday for talks on resolving tensions in their West African country. Togo was plunged into turmoil when military officials appointed Gnassingbe head of state shortly after the February 5 death of his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who had ruled the country since 1967.
Supporters of Togo’s ruling-party presidential candidate, Faure Gnassingbe, gathered on Tuesday under tight security ahead of official results expected to confirm he will succeed his father as president of the West African state. Meanwhile, panicked Togolese continued to flood the border zones.
Calm was returning slowly on Thursday to the Togo capital, Lomé, after post-election violence that has killed at least 22 people, amid assurances from France that it will not intervene in the affairs of its former West African colony. Most of the victims were opposition supporters, medical sources have said.
Police in Togo on Friday used teargas to break up a demonstration by thousands of members of the opposition on the first day of an election campaign in the small west African country. Clashes broke out in central Lome when members mainly of the opposition Union of Forces for Change marched on the city hall to demand voters’ cards.
West African leaders said on Tuesday they have appointed a regional observer to help reconcile Togo’s polarised political parties ahead of presidential elections in April to choose a successor to long-time autocrat Gnassingbe Eyadema. The appointment of the observer is one in a series of proposals to accompany the Togo electoral process.
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/ 27 February 2005
Togo’s new leader, Abass Bonfoh, made interim head of state during the night by Parliament, on Saturday promised ”free and open elections” within 60 days, to end a political crisis that has seen the country isolated internationally. He was speaking the day after army-installed ruler Faure Gnassingbe stood down, pledging an election.
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/ 26 February 2005
President Faure Gnassingbe, facing mounting international pressure since the Togo’s military installed him as leader three weeks ago, has announced he is stepping down and will seek the presidency in April elections. Gnassingbe resigned late on Friday, just hours after accepting his party’s nomination for the presidential bid.
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/ 14 February 2005
Army-installed Togo President Faure Gnassingbe on Sunday brushed aside international condemnation of his rule and praised the actions of his police force during riots that left at least three protesters dead. Opposition leaders asked for a day of calm so the country’s faithful could attend church.
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/ 8 February 2005
A ”stay-home” protest by Togo’s opposition to oppose the hasty swearing-in of President Faure Gnassingbe was on Tuesday gathering support from a population cowed by the repressive 38 years of rule of his late father, Gnassingbe Eyadema. Meanwhile, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council has signalled ”its determination to impose sanctions”.
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/ 7 February 2005
Togo’s Constitutional Court swore in 39-year-old Faure Gnassingbe as this tiny West African nation’s new president on Monday, despite volleys of international condemnation after the military installed him as his late father’s successor. The six-member court conducted the ceremony at the presidential palace.
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/ 6 February 2005
Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema, whose 38-year repressive reign over his tiny, impoverished country made him Africa’s longest-ruling leader, died of what aides said was a heart attack on Saturday, and the military immediately named his son as his successor. Worldwide, only Cuba’s Fidel Castro has held power longer.
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/ 20 November 2004
A celebration at the gates of Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema’s palace turned into a stampede on Saturday, killing at least 13 people as excited crowds tried to surge on to palace grounds. A government statement confirmed the 13 deaths. Officials warned the toll could climb, as hospitals treated scores of other victims.
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/ 11 October 2004
Four people were killed and eight injured, of whom three are in criticial condition, when a crowd stampeded following a power cut after Sunday’s Soccer World Cup African zone Group 1 qualifying game between Togo and Mali in Lome, officials confirmed on Monday.
Dozens of newspapers, scores of radio stations and five television channels … at first glance, Togo seems like a media junkie’s dream destination. But does being spoilt for choice translate into press freedom? This question has received an airing in recent days, thanks to a report by the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters sans Frontières.
Ivory Coast’s rebels apologised to Togo’s president on Sunday after walking out of peace talks, a withdrawal that raised fears of new fighting in West Africa’s economic powerhouse.
Ivory Coast’s rebels and government negotiators prayed together for peace on Saturday, and despite signs of deadlock in talks to end a bloody uprising in the West African nation, a top official insisted it was too early to talk of failure.