Togo News
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Lome - Authorities in Togo have demanded that state security agents implicated in the alleged torture of suspects held over a failed coup in 2009 be punished. Culture Minister Yacoubou Hamadou told national television that ministers had "invited the military high command to set in motion a procedure to apply immediate disciplinary sanctions" after a probe by the national human
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The United Nations human rights office today welcomed the release of an independent report in Togo that examines allegations that members of the West African country's intelligence agency tortured individuals accused of taking part in an attempted coup d'état in 2009. Togo's national human rights commission "found that the prisoners were subject to physical and moral violence of an inhuman
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Togo's president on Tuesday led African calls at the UN Security Council for greater action to counter crime syndicates and terrorism in West Africa which he said threatens governments. President Faure Gnassingbe called for an international group to be set up to combat narcotics trafficking, piracy and other crimes in West Africa, similar to one created to organise the battle
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Lome - An official in Togo says authorities are holding more than 150 Sri Lankan refugees who entered the West African nation en route to Canada. Lieutenant Colonel Yark Damehane said on Thursday most of the group arrived in Togo in 2011 and overstayed their one-week tourist visas. He said he suspected the group was abandoned by human traffickers who
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Lome - Togo's government says at least six top flight soccer players have been killed and another 28 people are critically injured after a bus carrying them plunged into a ravine and caught fire. In a statement read on national television, the government said Togo President Faure Gnassingbe had ordered that the injured be taken to a military hospital in
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Former World Cup qualifiers Togo scraped into the second phase of the 2014 African elimination competition with a 1-0 win over Guinea Bissau in Lome Tuesday. A 'Sparrowhawks' team boosted by the return of star striker Emmanuel Adebayor could not have wished for a better start after a drawn first leg last Friday as Serge Gakpe scored in the second
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Emmanuel Adebayor will return to international football in a World Cup qualifier next week after receiving assurances about the safety of the team, the Togolese Football Federation has confirmed. "I want to serve my country but the safety of all players in the team must be paramount," the Tottenham Hotspur striker said in a BBC radio interview. "I have been
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Tottenham striker Emmanuel Adebayor has made himself available for selection by Togo, 18 months after he announced his retirement from international football. Togo's national football federation said that he would be available to play in his country's upcoming qualifying games for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2014 World Cup. "Mr Adebayor is hopeful that a new chapter
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Several thousand Togo opposition supporters protested Wednesday to demand the return of nine parliamentarians removed from their seats in the country ruled by the same family for more than four decades. "We simply demand the return of our nine National Assembly legislators," Jean-Pierre Fabre of the National Alliance for Change (ANC) opposition and an ex-presidential candidate told AFP. "We shall
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The Togolese FA vice President Herve Piza has revealed that Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor will make an imminent return to international football. The former Togo captain took his international bow in 2010 after the Cabinda bus incident on the eve of the 2010 African Nations cup and the player had rejected several moves by authorities to lure him back
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Lome - Togo's ruling and opposition parties resumed dialogue on institutional and constitutional reforms in Lome on Thursday, though with a major opposition group missing.
The talks had broken down shortly before a hotly contested presidential election in March 2010.
They resumed under the auspices of a truth, justice and reconciliation commission set
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A court in Togo has sentenced one of the president's relatives to 20 years for his role in a 2009 coup plot in the West African nation.
Judge Petchelebia Abalo on Thursday sentenced former defense minister Kpatcha Gnassingbe, Gen. Assani Tidjani and Abi Atti to 20 years each. Gnassingbe is the half brother of President Faure
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Togo's supreme court was expected to hand down its verdict on Thursday in the trial of two half-brothers of President Faure Gnassingbe and 31 others over an alleged 2009 coup plot.
Kpatcha Gnassingbe, a former defence minister in the small West African nation, is accused of masterminding the plot targeting his half-brother.
Both
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Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor celebrated his Tottenham debut with the first goal in a 2-0 English Premier League triumph against Wolves at the weekend.
Adebayor, whose goals were pivotal in the Togolese reaching the 2006 World Cup finals, moved to White Hart Lane on loan from Manchester City after spending last season with Real Madrid.
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Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor celebrated his Tottenham debut with the first goal in a 2-0 English Premier League triumph against Wolves at the weekend.
Adebayor, whose goals were pivotal in the Togolese reaching the 2006 World Cup finals, moved to White Hart Lane on loan from Manchester City after spending last season with Real Madrid.
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The half-brother of Togo President Faure Gnassingbe, on trial for allegedly masterminding a coup plot in 2009, called Monday for "reconciliation" within the family as the case neared its end.
Again declaring his innocence before the court, Kpatcha Gnassingbe, on trial along with 32 others, said he wanted to "ask the Lord to touch the heart
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Lome - Several suspects standing trial over an alleged 2009 coup plot in Togo on Wednesday told a court they were tortured during their detention by the country's state security agency.
Two half-brothers of Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe and 30 others are accused of attempted violation of state security, criminal conspiracy and rebellion, among others, and
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Two half-brothers of Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe along with 30 others appeared in court for the first time Thursday over an alleged 2009 coup plot, but the case was immediately suspended.
The court appearance included brief applause from supporters of Kpatcha Gnassingbe, accused of being behind the plot and one of the numerous sons of Gnassingbe
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Two half-brothers of Togo President Faure Gnassingbe along with 30 others are due in court this week over an alleged 2009 coup plot in the small West African nation, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
Their court appearance on Thursday comes more than two years after former defence minister Kpatcha Gnassingbe was arrested for being the alleged mastermind of
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Lome - A former Togolese prime minister sentenced to five years in prison in absentia last week for allegedly embezzling some €1.2m in public funds strongly denied the accusations on Tuesday.
"The accusation is totally false," Eugene Koffi Adoboli, who has lived in Switzerland since 2002, told Kanal FM radio. "At no time have I dipped
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Members of Togo's anti-drugs squad have seized about 192 kilograms (425 pounds) of cocaine in two hauls at the port of Lome and made several arrests, national radio reported Friday.
The agents from the Central Office for the Repression of the Illicit Traffic in Drugs and Money-Laundering (OCRTIDB) made the seizures on June 11 and 15.
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Togo's government closed the University of Lomé indefinitely on Friday after a students' protest ended with teargas being fired by the security forces.
The authorities accused a group of students of trying to hold an "illegal gathering" before invading lecture theatres on the campus.
"They assaulted lecturers and students and destroyed public properties,
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Togo's truth and reconciliation commission set up to investigate past political violence spanning nearly five decades has recorded more than 20,000 cases, its chairman said Thursday.
"We have received a total of 20,011 depositions," Nicodeme Barrigah, a Catholic cleric, told AFP.
Processing and analysis of the cases have already begun, he said.
President Faure Gnassingbe set
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A boat carrying mourners returning from a funeral capsized in a storm in the west African nation of Togo, killing at least 36 people, while some swam to save themselves, officials said Monday.
The accident occurred on Lake Togo in the country's southeast on Sunday as at least one boat was carrying the passengers home after
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Togolese authorities were Friday still holding a brother of President Faure Gnassingbe over a coup plot in 2009, after freeing 10 other suspects a day earlier, his relatives said.
The state prosecutor at the Lome Appeal Court, Atara N’Dakena, on Thursday said that 10 people had been "conditionally freed under legal observation," but did not identify
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