Togo News

Togolese artists staged an open concert on Friday evening in the capital Lome to mark Universal Children's Day and the 20th anniversary of the UN convention on the rights of children.

Togolese artists perform during the opening ceremony of the seventh Lome International Expo in Lome, capital of Togo, Nov.

'The Catholic Church in Togo was begun on August 28, 1892, when the first Mass was celebrated in our land,' Agenzia Fides was told by Fr.

Togo supports the France-initiated celebration in 2010 to mark the 50th anniversary for Africa's independence, visiting French former minister Jacques Toubon said here on Friday.

I am Tovor Djatougbe Benedicta and 13 years old. I live in Togoville, 40 kilometers off Lome, capital of Togo, and study at a junior high school.

D.C. Police and Secret Service officers are investigating a stabbing that happened at the Republic of Togo's embassy on Massachusetts Avenue.

Africa aviation too dangerous: aviation officials Official says Africa accounts for 4 per cent of world's air traffic but nearly a third of air disasters occur on the continent LOME, Togo - The Associated Press Published on Friday, Nov.

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.