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

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is deeply alarmed by the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations held in Lomé, Togo.

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

Togo's recent constitutional overhaul has plunged the country into renewed political unrest, with mass protests erupting nationwide in response to reforms perceived as a veiled attempt by President ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Behind last week’s U.S-brokered peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo is a hidden storyline: Togo’s quest to become West Africa’s Rwanda.In Washington, Togolese Foreign ...