As the opposition swore to contest President Faure Gnassingbe’s re-election in Togo, there are reports coming out of the country that teargas was fired at hundreds of protesters on Sunday. Among the protesters was opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre, who has accused the President Faure Gnassingbe of rigging the country’s elections. Opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre, took [...]

According to reports coming out of Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe the incumbent in the country’s Presidential election is said to have won the elections by a comfortable margin.  The election commission said Faure Gnassingbe, had beaten opposition challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre. He won 1.2 million votes of two million cast, according to officials, considerably more than [...]

The main opposition party candidate in the West African State of Togo, along with the incumbent President, have both claimed victory in an election ahead of results due to be announced on Saturday. This decision may set the stage for protests in a country whose 2005 elections vote was marred by violence as well. The [...]

On Thursday, the West African country of Togo will go to the polls to choose a new President against a history of violence in earlier elections and opposition allegations that the current President Faure Gnassingbe may make attempts to rig the outcome. Thousands of people died in the post-election violence after the 2005 presidential poll [...]

The Secretary General of (Flec), the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda, Rodrigues Mingas, the group that has claimed responsibility for the attack on Togo’s football team has said that the attack was not aimed at the Togolese players but at the Angolan forces that was ahead of the convoy. He [...]

Authorities in the South-Central African country of Angola have announced that they have arrested two people on suspicion of attacking a bus carrying the Togo national soccer team to the African Nations Cup. The announcement was made by provincial prosecutor Antonio Nito in a statement to the press. He said “The two elements [...]