Rights groups call out state repression after violent crackdown on protests against Faure Gnassingbe’s extended rule.

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) strongly condemns the arrest and reported abuse of peaceful protesters in Togo's ...

Guest Column - Behind last week's U.S-brokered peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo is a hidden ...

Togolese civil society groups have called for an investigation after they said several people were killed during ...

Amnesty International expressed outrage on Thursday over the violent crackdown on protests in Togo on June 26, citing the ...

Protesters and security forces have clashed for a second day in Lomé, Togo's capital, over constitutional reforms that could ...

The Director of Democratic Futures in Africa at the Open Society Foundations, Dr Chukwuemeka B. Eze, has warned that African leaders who fail to recognise the continent’s shifting political tide will ...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, whose family has run the West African nation for 58 years, faces mounting protests ...

Director of Democratic Futures in Africa at the Open Society Foundations, Dr Chukwuemeka B. Eze, says the era when political elites dictated what democracy should mean in Africa is over.

In a statement shared on 29 June, Togolese civil society organizations reported the deaths of seven people, whose bodies were found in rivers in Lomé, and mentioned ‘beatings’ and ‘arbitrary arrests ...

Soldiers in Togo used tear gas and batons on Thursday to disperse hundreds of protesters who blocked main roads in the ...