Lome — Faure Gnassingbe, the candidate for Togo's ruling party and the son of the late veteran president Gnassingbe Eyadema, was declared winner of the presidential election on Tuesday.
Minutes after the television announcement, an IRIN correspondent saw crowds of angry youths spill onto the streets in some areas of the capital Lome waving machetes and hurling stones.
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