Togo Opposition Set for Renewed Round of Anti-Government Demonstrations
NOVANEWS
Gnassingbe administration fails to assuage mass discontent amid calls for the president’s resignation and major constitutional reform
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Featured image: President of Togo Faure Gnassignbe
Togolese officials have reportedly issued restrictions on planned demonstrations scheduled to begin October 18. These actions, which have spread broadly across the West African state in recent months, have been a source of concern by the current government.
Fourteen opposition parties and coalitions are united in an effort to force the removal of the regime of Faure Gnassignbe, the president whose father took complete control of the country as a result of a military coup engineered by France during 1967. Togo has a population of 7.8 million people with a tumultuous ...