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 ...

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Abstract Togo, a small West African nation, has long been a case study of autocratic persistence under the prolonged rule of ...

Seven people were killed during anti-government protests in Togo last week, said human rights activists, who accused security ...

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.

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

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A survey of Togolese citizens recently looked into perceptions of their government’s handling of the terrorist threat in the northern region and of the Alliance of Sahel States ...

Togo has suspended broadcasts by two French state-owned networks for three months for an alleged lack of impartiality in their reporting, a government agency in the West African nation said Monday.