Togo
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Togo, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
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- How France was involved in the FIRST MILITARY COUP IN AFRICA, THE 1963 TOGO COUP Togo became independent on…
- By the way, in year 2022, the currency of these our African countries are still being printed by France: 🇧…
- Togo is the first African country to end “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, according to the W…
- Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese national team captain on donating to his homeland given the ravaging coronaviru…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- Speaking of Togo, President Faure Gnassingbé has just won re-election for a fourth 5-year term. President F…
- Former CAF and BBC African Footballer of the Year and ex-Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester City, Real Madrid a…
- The 21 safest countries to travel to in Africa are: Angola Benin Botswana Cape Verde Djibouti Equatorial Gu…
- Why the people of Togo want President Faure Gnassingbe to leave power.
- Listen to Togo's President Sylvanus Olympio on NBC March 1962 After reducing dependence on France by cooper…
- China today are contracted to build airports for; Togo: cost $150 billion (yes, billion), Sudan: $700 milli…
- Cape Verde, Chad, Eritrea, Niger, Togo and The Gambia have no diplomatic relations with Chile.
- At the time of Gnassingbé Eyadéma's death in 2005, he was the longest-serving leader in modern African hist…
- Ecobank, based in Lomé, Togo, has affiliates in 33 nations in Africa. It's Africa's best bank 2013 by Globa…
- Rwanda, Burundi, CAR, Benin and Togo citizens are the least satisfied with their lives - 2013 World Happine…
- German Togoland was split into French Togoland & British Togoland in 1916. The latter merged with Ghana in…
- 61% of Togolese are literate.
- Togo is the fourth largest producer of phosphate in the world.
- In Togo, 39 distinct tongues or languages are spoken.
- Eyadéma, former Togo ruler, made a date of a failed attempt on his life annually commemorated as "The Feast…
- Top 10 world’s saddest countries: 1. C.A.R; 2.DR Congo; 3.Afghanistan; 4.Chad; 5.Haiti; 6.Burundi; 7.Togo;…
- Germany lost all African territories to UK, France & Belguim after its World War I defeat. They include Tog…
- World Poorest Nations (UN & WHO): 1)DR Congo; 2)Zimbabwe; 3)Liberia; 4)Niger; 5)Burundi; 6)CAR; 7)Eritrea;…
- Gunmen from a Cabinda separatist group attacked a bus carrying the Togo national football team ahead of the… (2010)
- Gnassingbé Eyadéma, longtime President of Togo who ruled for 38 years, died. (2005)
- Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese international footballer, was born. (1984)
- Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrew President Nicolas Grunitzky in a coup and installed himself as President of To… (1967)
- Sylvanus Olympio, the first President of Togo, was assassinated in a military coup, one of the first violen… (1963)
- Togo gained independence from France, becoming one of the first sub-Saharan French colonies to achieve sove… (1960)
- French colonial troops fired on a crowd at the Hoda market in northern Togoland that had gathered over the… (1957)
- Germany took possession of Togo, establishing a colonial protectorate in West Africa, after commissioner Gu… (1884)