Togo

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | February 8th, 2005 | Trackback

The recent death of longtime ruler Gnassingbe Eyadema should have paved the way for elections to choose a new president, but the army installed his son in the position almost immediately, flouting the constitutional requirement that the speaker of the national assembly should assume power until elections could be held within two months. The army sealed Togo’s borders immediately upon the president’s death and prevented the speaker from returning from Paris. France placed its troops in West Africa on alert as a precaution, and the situation has remained calm.

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