Togo News

Students from the Confucius Institute at the University of Lome on Thursday went to the Chinese Embassy in Togo to visit the photo exhibition on achievements since the Beijing summit on Sino-African cooperation.

A photo exhibition was opened on Wednesday in Lome, the capital of Togo, to demonstrate achievements in the continent since the 2006 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation .

Foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa, AU commissioner Ping Jean and AU executive council chairperson Hawa Zainab Bangura during the refugee meeting at Munyonyo By Cyprian Musoke and Milton Olupot SIX heads of state are expected to jet into the country today to attend a summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons opening tomorrow ...

Jessic Nemic and Brian Dombrowski discover that neither his nor her respective milkshakes bring any the boys to the yard.

VATICAN CITY, OCT. 11, 2009 .- Here are the English-language summaries provided by the Vatican press office of the interventions given by auditors Saturday at the Tenth General Congregation of the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops.

Glenelg Country School junior Ben Smith spent a portion of his summer in Togo, where he established a cyber cafA© in the village of Vo Pedakondje.

Corrupt practices are still a big problem along the Tema-Ouagadougou corridor within the West African sub-region, despite the overall bribery decrease of 11%, and that of Ghana by 5% in 2009, Louis Acheampong, Project Coordinator of the Social Support Foundation , has revealed at a workshop organised in Tema recently.

Then there are strange and weird holidays that really have no meaning besides the mere purpose to have an excuse to celebrate something.

A mission from the International Monetary Fund , led by Mr. Marshall Mills, visited Lome September 9-22, 2009 to conduct the third review under the government's economic program supported by an arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility 1 . The mission met with the Prime Minister, Mr.

A woman accused of smuggling West African girls to New Jersey and forcing them to work at hair-braiding salons made her victims undergo a voodoo ritual to frighten them into believing they would go insane if they escaped, a witness testified during a federal trial in Newark today.

It is becoming a worrying tradition in Africa to see election results get violently contested, with often bloody results.

The West African nation of Togo is a small and mountainous sliver of land where villagers scratch livings from cassava fields and phosphate mines.

The XVth International Drama Festival opened in Minde lo, in the Cape Verdian Island of Sao Vicente, on Thursday with 21 groups from 10 European, South American and African countries participating.

Information available to the Daily Graphic on the movement of St Efrem, the vessel impounded at the Tema Port for carrying five sacks of suspected cocaine, indicates that the vessel sailed from Santos, Brazil on August 13, 2009 after it arrived there on August 8, 2009.

FRUSTRATED residents are still awaiting news of the Cherry Orchard Primary Care Centre, despite the fact that funds were guaranteed following the sale of land at St Loman's Hospital.

The UN is to launch a Global Climate Week on 21-25 Septemb er to help push for an international deal on climate change, a UN statement said Saturday.

The promise by Ghana to extend assistance to Togo in the conduct of her Presidential elections next year should come as good news to all well meaning lovers of democratic governance.

As time draws near for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December, Zambia has intensified climate c hange awareness activities.

Togolese Agriculture Minister Kossi Messan Ewovor shakes hands with UN Food and Agricultural Organization representative Justin Rushemeza at a signing ceremony in Lome, capital of Togo, Aug.

A group of 20 young Chinese volunteers arrived on Sunday afternoon at the Togolese capital, Lome, where they will work for one year in the domains of teaching, health, telecommunication and sports.