Togo

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INFORMATION

Capital: Lomé

Government: Presidential Republic

Current President: Faure Gnassingbé

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Suffers from anemic economic growth and depends heavily on both commercial and subsistence agriculture, which provides employment for a significant share of the labor force.
Among the world’s largest producers of phosphate.

Population: 8,608,444 (2020)

Land Size: 56,785 sq km (21,925 sq miles)

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RECENT NEWS

Mon - Jun 29, 2020: Minority Demands Withdrawal of Military Deployment to Ghana-Togo Border Towns - AllAfrica News: Togo
[Ghanaian Times] The Minority in Parliament is demanding the immediate withdrawal of military personnel deployed to some Ghana-Togo border towns.
Fri - Jun 5, 2020: In Togo, a Ministry Helping People Living With HIV Is a Sister's Life Work - AllAfrica News: Togo
[Global Sisters Report] Editor's note: Since this article was reported earlier this year, COVID-19 has now reached Togo, a small country in West Africa between Benin and Ghana, where Sr. Marie Stella Kouak cares for AIDS-HIV patients and orphans through the organization she founded 21 years ago, Vivre dans l'Espérance (To Live in Hope).