Sentence examples for togo from inspiring English sources

What, if anything, will be done?The question applies particularly to France, which once ruled Togo.

One example is Cajour Espoir in Togo, the country's first cashew processor.

Last year it took stakes in ports in Togo and Djibouti.

His father, Sylvanus, Togo's first post-independence president, was assassinated in 1963 by a hit squad led by Eyadéma Gnassingbé, who seized power in a coup four years later and ruled Togo with an iron fist for 38 years.

One young opposition supporter, alluding to the popular suspicion that France's president, Jacques Chirac, is lobbying to have EU aid to Togo restored, shouted that: "If he [Chirac] accepts these elections, we will all kill Frenchmen!"Meanwhile, the UFC claims that its headquarters was stormed by trucks full of special election police.

In return France provides Togo with almost a third of its aid, about $60m a year.

Or rather, obviously, there was a status anxiety embedded in race relations in America that was absent in Togo.

Togo could follow the example of nearby Côte d'Ivoire, which fell apart after its strongman, Félix Houphouet-Boigny, died.

Togo still has a state television station that shows endless military parades, but it also has independent newspapers that pillory the commander-in-chief.

In 1975 there were only 96,000 women in the armed services, less than 5% of the 2.1m total; today, there are 193,000, just over 13% of a military corps that has been slimmed down to 1.4m.The politically correct army secretary, General Togo West, maintains that every American "is entitled to an opportunity to serve and should be given that opportunity".

Niger is a landlocked country, and most food aid has to be imported by bad road hundreds of kilometres from the ports of neighbouring Benin, Togo and Nigeria.