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	Togolese presidential election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A presidential election was held in Togo on April 24, 2005, following the death in office of long-time president Gnassingbé Eyadéma.
		The death of Eyadéma on February 5, 2005, was followed by the naming of his son, Faure, as president.
		The parliament subsequently changed the constitution so that elections would not need to be held within 60 days, thus allowing the son to serve out the remainder of his father's term, which would have expired in 2008.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Togo_presidential_election,_2005 (1035 words)

	Wikinfo \| April 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Almost three months after the legislative election in Iraq, the National Assembly voted overwhelmingly to approve a Shi'a-led cabinet, establishing the first elected government in the history of Iraq.
		Togolese presidential election, 2005: Three killed, amid claims of fraud in tense election in Togo to choose the successor to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, hardline ruler for 38 years, from amongst Faure Gnassingbé, the 39-year-old son of the late leader, and several challengers led by Emmanuel Bob-Akitani.
		Togolese interior minister François Boko wants to postpone next Sunday's presidential election, claiming that there is a threat of civil war.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=April_2005 (3416 words)

	Vanguard - World : Former Togolese speaker urges new leader to step down
		Togolese former speaker Ouatara Fanbare Natchaba has appealed to the international community to help him recover the presidential seat which was denied him upon the death of former leader, Gnassingbe Eyasema.
		Nachaba said he was still confident the international community would put pressure on the new Togolese leadership to step down to ensure that the country’s constitution was respected.
		Although he promised elections within 60 days, as stipulated by the constitution, this did little to quell protests from African neighbours and beyond.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/world/w101032005.html (863 words)

	News -- Push for Togo unity government
		The Togolese government and opposition are expected to be under pressure at a regional summit to reach a deal to end the crisis after disputed elections.
		Before the election the Nigerian president invited Togolese political leaders to Abuja to talk reconciliation and achieved a guarded promise that whoever won the presidential election, they would consider a unity government.
		The announcement of the official election results - a substantial win for the old president's son - brought opposition supporters onto the streets in fury, protesting that that the election was rigged and that they had been robbed.
	odili.net /news/source/2005/may/19/67.html (436 words)

	Benin asks for $6.5m to aid Togolese refugees. 13/05/2005. ABC News Online
		Togolese civilians began fleeing their country in the wake of a bitterly disputed April 24 presidential election which triggered street fighting between opposition supporters a pro-government security forces.
		Many of the refugees who arrived since the election have been accepted into the homes of Beninois friends and relatives, but others are in makeshift camps and their numbers are still rising despite a relative calm returning to Togo.
		Fighting erupted after Faure Gnassingbe, the 39-year-old son of the late president, was declared the winner of last month's election in the face of widespread claims of ballot-rigging.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200505/s1368417.htm (293 words)

	UNICEF - Panorama: Benin - Togolese refugee children back to school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Togolese children at a refugee camp in Benin hold up their new school supplies.
		LOKOSSA REFUGEE CAMP, Benin, 31 May 2005 - In a dusty courtyard in the Lokossa refugee camp, a former palm tree plantation in southwest Benin, over 1000 children between the ages of four and 18 are about to go back to school.
		On 26 April, violent demonstrations followed the announcement of the presidential election results in Togo, leading to an influx of Togolese refugees into Benin.
	www.unicef.org /spanish/infobycountry/benin_27241.html (583 words)

	afrol News - Europe condemns Togolese polls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Given the harsh critique by the EU and associated countries, the Togolese elections mostly have been counterproductive.
		The Eyadema dictatorship had agreed to arrange free and fair presidential elections to be able to improve its relationship with Europe.
		During the preparations to the elections, the Togolese-EU dialogue further broke down as Togolese authorities were unable to agree to a so-called "EU Exploratory Mission".
	www.afrol.com /articles/10424 (818 words)

	Council for a Community of Democracies
		During the 1990s, Togo held its first multiparty elections, though in the eyes of most of the world the elections were a "farce".
		However, the election is tarnished by deadly street violence between rival supporters.
		Reacting to criticism of the military's appointment of the President, the Parliament of Togo amended the national constitution, permitting their previous President's son to hold the Presidency until 2008, the end of his father's term.
	www.ccd21.org /news/togo_general.htm (633 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
		In late April, NDI implemented a poll watcher-training of trainers workshop in Benin for over 30 representatives from six Togolese opposition parties interested in observing the upcoming presidential election, and distributed 5000 poll-watching manuals to political parties and members of the electoral commission.
		In November 2005 and March 2006, NDI sponsored study missions to Burkina Faso and Benin, respectively, for pro-democracy activists from the Collectif.
		The missions were strategically scheduled to coincide with the presidential elections in the host countries.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/cewa/togo/togo_pf.asp (1302 words)

	News: Togo, Violence in Togo's presidential campaign kills 7, injures over 100
		Six ruling party supporters were beaten to death and about 100 their colleagues were injured during clashes with opposition supporters, said a statement issued on Sunday by the Togolese Movement for the Defense of Liberties and Human Rights, a party close to the ruling Rally of Togolese People.
		The presidential elections, scheduled for April 24, were called after Gnassingbe, son of former Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema, resigned on Feb. 25 under mounting pressure.
		Togo, a former French colony, sits between Ghana and Benin on the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of Africa.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/MHII-6BK4GN?OpenDocument (360 words)

	Send to a Friend - IPS Inter Press Service
		Emmanuel Akitani-Bob, an opposition candidate in the presidential election held Sunday in Togo, declared himself winner of the poll Wednesday.
		Many Togolese opponents of Gnassingbe, who came across the border from Ghana and now occupy part of the capital, are calling for mass resistance to the new regime.
		Many Togolese believe France played a key part in helping Eyadema hold on to power for 38 years, (the former leader seized control of the country during a 1967 coup).
	www.ipsnews.net /sendnews.asp?idnews=28473 (952 words)

	Presidential Research & Communications Unit - International News
		Although the election was marred by violence and rigging allegations, Messrs Faure Eyadema and Gilchrist Olympio agreed after the meeting to form a government of national unity notwithstanding the party that emerges victorious.
		A presidential candidate himself, Faure Eyadema contested under the banner of the ruling Rally of the Togolese People’s Party (RPT).
		Although he was ineligible to stand for the election, Olympio, the country’s most notable opposition figure, remains a key leader of the rival Union of Forces for Change Party (UFC), under whose banner Mr Emmanuel Bob Akitani contested.
	www.nigeriafirst.org /article_3879.shtml (369 words)

	IFES Election Guide - Country Profile: Togo - Elections
		The resolution condemns the acts of violence against opposition members and civilians disputing the fairness of the elections, and calls on the Togolese authorities to convene new presidential and legislative elections.
		This has led to concerns about the integrity of the election process because the presidential administration is charged with the organization and implementation of the elections.
		Elections were held in Togo on October 27, with reports of voters rushing to collect their voting cards in time for the polls.
	www.electionguide.org /country-news.php?ID=213 (688 words)

	Togo: ICRC and Togolese Red Cross help victims of electoral violence
		The election campaign and the poll itself had been marred by clashes in the capital, Lomé, and in some cities upcountry including Atakpamé (160 km north of Lomé) and Sokodé (350 km north of the capital).
		In response, the Togolese Red Cross mobilized over 900 volunteers throughout the country with financial and material support from the ICRC and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
		On election day and on the day results were announced, Red Cross teams took over 150 injured people in Lomé and the surrounding area to hospital in ICRC-provided ambulances.
	www.icrc.org /web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/6BVE2B (284 words)

	Key Embassy Links - U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo
		During the election period and in late 2005, harassment of journalists intensified.
		The United States used the occasion of the Togolese presidential election as a vehicle to advance democratic political processes.
		Each broadcast addressed a different aspect of elections, from explaining the election process and electoral laws to describing the role of media, civil society, Government entities, and youth in an election.
	lome.usembassy.gov /tgshrd.html (1022 words)

	Late Togo Dictator's Son Seeks Presidency
		Togo's interim head of state on Friday vowed the elections will go ahead, and fired a minister who had called for the ballot to be canceled because of fears of bloodshed.
		Eyadema died of a heart attack Feb. 5, ending an oppressive era in which political foes were routinely tortured and killed, dissent was crushed by jackboot security forces and spies prowled the dusty boulevards and halls of university campuses.
		The election was likely to be just the beginning of the challenges facing Togo's next leader, said Emmanuel Anin, a political analysts with African Security Dialogue and Research, a think-tank in neighboring Ghana.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/04/22/114854.xml (809 words)

	Togo election set to unleash new terror in Africa : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		All the signs are that if the opposition presidential contender wins then the army will intervene and impose its candidate, the late dictator’s son Faure Gnassingbé, as the new effective military dictator.
		Eyadema, under international pressure, permitted multi-party elections in the mid-1990s, but the man who conducted the count was his personal head of security.
		In 1998 the vote count in the latest presidential election was abruptly stopped and Eyadema was declared the winner after the army had killed several hundred civilian protesters.
	sf.indymedia.org /news/2005/04/1713638.php (1108 words)

	Election In Togo
		The national election commission has declared Faure Gnassingbe the provisional winner of Togo's presidential election.
		The election in Togo was held to select a successor to Gnassingbe Eyadema, the father of Faure Gnassingbe.
		Despite the facade of multiparty elections instituted in the early 1990s, the government continued to be dominated by President Eyadema's Rally of the Togolese People party.
	www.voanews.com /uspolicy/2005-05-02-voa4.cfm (362 words)

	World \| CRIENGLISH
		Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe has been nominated by the ruling party as the presidential candidate for elections in April, amid huge international pressure demanding him to quit.
		The Togolese army installed Gnassingbe in office on February 7, shortly after the death of his father Gnassingbe Eyadema despite a constitutional provision stating that power ought to pass to the speaker of the national assembly.
		The African Union, which labeled the Togolese army's move as unconstitutional and "a coup", imposed sanctions on Friday against the government of Togo, suspending Togo's participation in the Union's activities as of the day.
	english.cri.cn /2239/2005-2-26/127@210525.htm (321 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Huge crowds greet Togolese exile
		Togo's exiled opposition leader has received a rapturous reception on a visit to the country's capital, Lome, ahead of presidential elections.
		Opposition parties have criticised the hastily-arranged presidential poll, alleging that the vote has been organised too quickly and is vulnerable to vote-rigging.
		They said Togolese would be voting less for any particular candidate than to get rid of the Gnassingbe family, who have been in power in Togo for the past 38 years, our correspondent reports.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4452493.stm (326 words)

	BENIN-TOGO: Refugees continue to flow into Benin, fleeing persecution Liberian Online - Liberia Portal
		LOME, 18 May 2005 (IRIN) - Over 100 Togolese refugees are continuing to cross the border each day into Benin, said the UN refugee agency UNHCR on Wednesday, contrasting with previous reports that the situation in Togo appeared to be returning to calm.
		There are currently 16,500 Togolese refugees in Benin, according to Saidi, and 14,727 more in Ghana according to a UNHCR statement issued on Tuesday.
		On April 25, the day after polling and before the results of the presidential election were announced, Gnassingbe flew to the Nigerian capital for a meeting with Obasanjo and the exiled Togolese opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio.
	www.liberianonline.com /liberia-news406.html (822 words)

	Index Ah-Al (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In October 2005 he said Israel should be "wiped off the map," followed in December by suggestions that Israel should be moved to Europe and that the Holocaust was a myth.
		He ran for the UCR nomination for the 1973 presidential election but lost to Balbín, who himself lost the election to the Peronists, who were overthrown by the military in 1976.
		In March 2005 he was appointed acting chief justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (the substantive chief justice, Sir Dennis Bryon, being on three years leave of absence, serving with the international tribunal in Rwanda).
	www.rulers.org.cob-web.org:8888 /indexa2.html (17251 words)

	Elections in Togo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Elections in Togo gives information on election and election results in Togo.
		Togo is a one party dominant state with the Rally of the Togolese People in power.
		This election was boycotted by most of the opposition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Togo (269 words)

	Scoop: Togolese Refugees Flood Into Benin
		appealed to Togolese politicians to solve the crisis peacefully and avoid a humanitarian emergency.
		The results of the elections on Sunday gave rise to violent disputes, which UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan also deplored.
		From France: Les Yeux on France: Sarkozy to be Presidential candidate - Scoop's Yasmine Ryan reports from France - In what La Marseille today referred to as ‘the ultimate non-scoop’, Nicolas Sarkozy finally made it official that he will be running for the UMP primaries for the French Presidency in 2007.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0505/S00028.htm (608 words)

	Back to school, but in another country, for Togolese refugee children (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AGAME, 30 May 2005 (IRIN) - With little time left before the end of the school year and exams, 1,600 Togolese refugee children went back to school on Monday in camps set up in Benin for refugees who have fled Togo’s post-election unrest.
		Refugees have been streaming across Togo’s borders to Benin and Ghana ever since opposition supporters took to the streets to protest against the election of Faure Gnassingbe, a son of the former authoritarian head of state, at the end of April.
		But while the girls made it back to school for the exams, many boys returned to the camps in fear after being told their names were on lists of people wanted by police, he said.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=47397 (802 words)

	CPJ News Alert 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		New York, April 20, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by a new Togolese government order that bars private radio and television stations from reporting on the presidential election campaign, which is now in its final days.
		Private radio stations in the capital, Lomé;, appear to be obeying the order and are limiting their campaign coverage to government statements, CPJ sources said.
		The election follows the February 5 death of Gnassingbé Eyadema, who had ruled Togo for 38 years.
	www.cpj.org /news/2005/Togo20apr05na.html (327 words)

	US Concerned About Prospect of Vote-Rigging, Election Violence in Togo
		Plans for the Togo election are proceeding amid controversy, underlined by Friday's firing of the country's interior minister, who had called for a postponement because of alleged poll-rigging and the threat of violence.
		Ereli said the United States joins ECOWAS in "demanding" that Togolese authorities conduct the elections in a free and fair manner, and said the international community will "closely scrutinize" the conduct of the balloting and vote-counting process.
		The presidential contest is a four-candidate race including the ruling party's Faure Gnassingbe, son of the man who ran the west African country for nearly four decades.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2005-04/2005-04-22-voa74.cfm (524 words)

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