Togo votes for a new parliament with stronger say in governance
Lome, Togo Reuters Voting got under way in legislative elections in Togo on Monday following approval of constitutional reforms by the outgoing parliament that could extend the 19-year-old rule of President Faure Gnassingbe. Under a new charter adopted in March introducing a parliamentary system of government, the president will be elected by parliament instead of […]
Togolese opposition members arrested over campaign against new constitution
Lome, Togo Reuters Nine Togolese politicians who were running a campaign against a new constitution that could allow President Faure Gnassingbe to extend his 19-year rule have been arrested, a spokesperson for an opposition coalition said on Thursday. Opposition voices are growing in the tiny phosphate-producing West African nation over constitutional reform that could change […]
Charity uses mobile phone data to identify aid recipients in Togo
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation A US-based non-profit that is using algorithms to identify people living in extreme poverty by analysing their mobile phone habits has made direct cash payments to 30,000 people as part of a pioneering project in Togo. GiveDirectly worked with the government of the West African nation and experts at the University […]
In Togo, a Catholic nun fights COVID-19 for the sake of her AIDS patients
RNS “Here, people won’t die from COVID-19 but mostly from its consequences,” said Sr Marie Stella Kouak, a Catholic nun whose non-profit in Togo, on Africa’s west coast, is on the front line against the pandemic and also facing unforeseen hardship. “We just visited an AIDS patient,” she continued. “She was fine before and now […]
Togo failing in mission to eradicate child labour, says UN rapporteur
Dakar, SenegalThomson Reuters Foundation Child labour is still widely accepted in Togo and the government is not doing enough to stop it, said the U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery in an interview on Friday. Many children in the West African country are forced into domestic servitude or hard labour at a young […]
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