Togo News

Nigerian newspaper, ThisDay, has claimed the 23-year-old charged with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner, began to show increasingly radical views on Islam during his high school days.

Passengers heard a popping sound and saw flames - and jumped on the would-be bomber.

Accra, Dec. 22, GNA - Three Chinese and a Ghanaian suspected of being part of a ring trafficking Chinese women into Ghana for prostitution have been arrested and put before court.

Diplomatic relations between Togo and its former colonial power France have soured after a French diplomat was expelled from the West African country.

The 24th meeting of the International Conference of advocates was opened here on Friday in the Togolese capital under the theme "Solidarity for rights." Togolese president Faure Gnassingbe presided over the opening ceremony of the five-day meeting which brought together 400 participants coming from about 30 French speaking countries at the Lome ...

The spokesman did not confirm that the expulsion was linked to Yamgnane,but said Bosc had never overstepped his mandate and had shown a high degree of professionalism in his contacts with all legal political parties.

A second Green Revolution must be waged to end hunger an d poverty in the dry lands, according to a joint statement from the Internationa l Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics and the Internatio n al Fund for Agricultural Development made available to PANA in Lagos on F r iday.

African swine plague killed over 100,000 pigs over the last three years in Togo, according to statistics released by Narcisse Litaaba-A kila, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fishing Mr.

Alpha Sesay 26 November 2009 Charles Taylor helped three major Sierra Leonean rebel commanders to reconcile their differences but such reconciliation was not for purposes of a military takeover of the country, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today in The Hague.

Togo, a narrow strip of land on Africa's west coast, has for years been the target of criticism over its human rights record and political governance.

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 ...