Togo is a relatively small country situated in West Africa with a population of about 5.5 million. Some of her agricultural products include coco, coffee and cotton which generate about 40% of export earnings and she is the world’s fourth-largest producer of phosphate. Togo’s political landscape, just like that of many other African countries is … Read more
(Notse, GNA) – Togbe Afede XIV, Agbogbomefia of the Asogli State has said Africa could remain underdeveloped until the physical borders between nations and other ‘unfriendly trade policies’ were removed. He, therefore, called for the urgent removal of the trade barriers that were inhibiting free trade among West African states, who, he said, were traditionally … Read more
Military groups in the Southern African country of Lesotho have surrounded government and police buildings and gunfire has been heard in the small mountainous southern African kingdom. The Prime Minister, Tom Thabane fled to South Africa on Friday and during an interview said that the army had taken over government buildings but he planned to … Read more
The wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister, Amadou Ali, has been kidnapped and at least three other people have been killed in an attack by Boko Haram fighters on Ali’s home in the northern town of Kolofata, officials have said. A local religious leader and mayor, Seini Boukar Lamine, was also kidnapped in a separate … Read more