Faure Gnassingbé may no longer be president but he still pulls the strings - and no longer has to face elections.

Port of Lomé, in the capital of Togo, is increasingly becoming attractive to global powers, as Russia and the United States ...

LOME, Aug. 15 (Xinhua) -- Chinese doctors on Thursday provided free clinical services to local people in the Pya area of northern Togo's Kozah Prefecture.

Authorities in Togo have repressed the media and prevented civilians from gathering to protest peacefully, Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday, ahead of parliamentary ...

Togo’s parliamentary election: Why all eyes are on President Gnassingbe New changes to the constitution mean presidential polls are likely to be scrapped, leaving lawmakers as the kingmakers.

Togo has seen years of resistance to the Gnassingbe family's rule. The president was first elected in 2005 to succeed his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who took office in a coup in 1967.

The citizens of Togo, a country of roughly eight million people between Ghana to the west and Benin to the east, have lived for more than 50 years under a brutal dictatorship.

Since anti-government protests started last year targeting Togo's president, whose family has ruled for more than 50 years, hundreds have been detained by military and police. Many describe being ...

Famed for delivering life-saving medicine across the Alaskan wilderness in 1925, Togo, a lead sled dog, wound up in Maine. A statue to honor him at Poland Spring is in the works.