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Togo

July 2024

  • Col Assimi Goïita, Gen Abdourahamane Tiani, and Capt Ibrahim Traoré (R) salute as they stand to attention at the summit. All are wearing military uniform

    Ecowas warns of ‘disintegration’ as juntas split from west African bloc

    Breakaway union by military rulers of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger exposes growing fissures within the region

December 2023

  • ‘Building a life from scratch’ … Hélène Amouzou, from the series Autoportrait, Molenbeek, 2007-2011.

    Hélène Amouzou review – spectral self-portraits of a soul in torment

    After fleeing Togo in 1992 and being separated from her husband, the artist spent almost two decades in the netherworld to which those without an official immigration status are confined

July 2023

  • Two migrants on the rudder of a cargo ship at the port of the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, southwestern Spain

    Canary Islands coastguard rescues two men balanced on ship’s rudder

    Nigerian stowaways survived for at least a week under ship that voyaged from Lagos via Lomé, Togo

November 2022

  • Colour satellite image of Lagos, Nigeria. Image taken on January 19, 2014 with Landsat 8 data.<br>EX6PKF Colour satellite image of Lagos, Nigeria. Image taken on January 19, 2014 with Landsat 8 data.

    The Audio Long Read
    Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century – podcast

    By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos. By Howard W French

October 2022

  • Satellite image of Lagos, Nigeria.

    The long read
    Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century

    The long read: By the end of the century, Africa will be home to 40% of the world’s population – and nowhere is this breakneck-pace development happening faster than this 600-mile stretch between Abidjan and Lagos

August 2022

  • A cloth from Togo depicting a woman filtering water to prevent Guinea worm

    Togo achieves ‘major feat’ of eliminating four neglected tropical diseases

  • A hippo in Chobe national park, Botswana

    The age of extinction
    Call for hippos to join list of world’s most endangered animals

July 2022

  • Emmanuel Macron smiles as he walks with a gesturing Paul Biya

    Opinion
    Françafrique is back: Macron’s visit to Cameroon signals Colonisation 2.0

    Vava Tampa
  • A teenager holds a baby above water after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea

    Teenager saves baby from shipwreck during Mediterranean crossing

February 2022

  • Head shot of Tété-Michel Kpomassie wearing a fur-lined hood

    Breaking the ice: one man’s epic journey from Togo to Greenland

    In 1965, Teté-Michel Kpomassie left his African homeland for a new life in Greenland, swapping sunny beaches for icy fjords and spiced food for boiled seal. Now, at 80, he’s planning to retire to his ‘spiritual home’

August 2020

  • Benoît Alowonou

    WhatsApp spyware attack: senior clergymen in Togo among activists targeted

    Bishop from Togo among 1,400 individuals alerted by WhatsApp to malware attack

July 2020

  • Kouak with children at her Aids orphanage

    ‘I can't give in’: The Togolese nun caring for Aids patients amid Covid-19

    NGO chief and Catholic sister Marie-Stella Kouak is no stranger to crisis, but fears a ‘catastrophic’ disruption of HIV/Aids drugs

May 2020

  • Veronique Tadjo at the 11th Abidjan book fair in 2019.

    'It's a real battle': African authors fight for publishing independence

    Francophone African books are still very often published by French imprints, which can make them hard to get at home. But there is a growing push for change

February 2020

  • Togolese president Faure Gnassingbé shakes hands with voters at the polls.

    Togo votes as president Gnassingbé expected to win fourth term

  • Motorists drive past a campaign billboard in Lomé bearing the image of President Faure Gnassingbé

    Togo has long been mired in political crisis – and elections won't change that

    Mawuna Koutonin

March 2019

  • Burkinabé soldiers.

    'Alarming' Burkina Faso unrest threatens west African stability

    Reach of extremist groups could spread to Ghana, Togo and Benin, says US military chief

December 2017

  • A health official in the Nigerian town of Dikwa measures the arm circumference of a child as part of a drive to control malnutrition

    The year's top development stories: 2017 in review

    As Donald Trump cut funding for family planning and people from east Africa to Yemen went hungry, peace finally gained a foothold in Colombia

September 2017

  • A masked anti-government protester is seen during clashes with police in Lomé in 2013

    No business, no boozing, no casual sex: when Togo turned off the internet

    When young people started mobilising online against Togo’s president, the state switched off the internet. In the week that followed, people talked more, worked harder and had less sex – all of which proved bad news for the government

July 2017

  • Photograph by David Levene

    Tobacco: a deadly business
    Threats, bullying, lawsuits: tobacco industry's dirty war for the African market

    Revealed: In pursuit of growth in Africa, British American Tobacco and others use intimidatory tactics to attempt to suppress health warnings and regulation

April 2017

  • The return of a slave child. Le Ciel and L’amour (made-up names they have chosen) can rest at last. Before they came to Jean Paul II, a recovery centre for girl victims of trafficking of people and forced marriages in Kara (Togo), they had to sleep rough, in danger of assault, robbery and sexual abuse. Child protection is one of the basic objectives of these rehabilitation centres.

    Modern-day slavery in focus
    West African children rescued from slavery – in pictures

    In Togo and Benin, photographer Ana Palacios met children who have been rescued from slavery, and discovered how they are being helped to rebuild their lives
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