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Togo:
Nation Builds 'Transit and Service Economy'
This is Africa, 5 January 2012
Half-way along the Togolese capital's main beachside boulevard, past several dilapidated hotels and the skeleton of a colonial-era export pier crumbling into the Atlantic, is what… Read more »
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Togo:
Political Change Stimulates Once-Moribund Economy
This is Africa, 5 January 2012
Since 2005 Togo's political transformation has been key in stimulating its once moribund economy. Read more »
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Togo:
Govt Scales Up Infrastructure Investment
This is Africa, 5 January 2012
Driving past the deserted hotels which punctuate the coastal Boulevard Mono in Lomé, Albert Kokou, 43, a taxi driver, wistfully recalls a time when Togo was known as "west… Read more »
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Togo:
Politics - On the Mend?
This is Africa, 5 January 2012
The same family and political party have ruled Togo for the past 44 years. In 2005 president Faure Gnassingbé, the English speaking son of president-for-life… Read more »
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Togo:
Disputed Vote Spawns Fears
UNIRIN, 7 March 2010
Togo's armed forces dispersed demonstrations with tear gas on 7 March Read more »
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Togo:
Tip-Toeing Towards Reconciliation
UNIRIN, 4 March 2010
As up to 3.2 million Togolese cast their ballots in the presidential election on 4 March, IRIN asked voters and experts what it would take to reach true reconciliation after… Read more »
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Togo:
Tense Election Billed as National Reconciliation
UNIRIN, 3 March 2010
More than 3,000 local election observers, 6,000 soldiers, and representatives of international election transparency watchdog groups are scattered across Togo on the eve of a… Read more »
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Togo:
Alleged Coup Attempt Tests Country's Stability
UNIRIN, 6 May 2009
Tensions surrounding the recent arrest of the Togolese president's brother on coup-plotting charges and the detention of other civilians will test reconciliation efforts in the… Read more »