Rights groups call out state repression after violent crackdown on protests against Faure Gnassingbe’s extended rule.

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Abstract Togo, a small West African nation, has long been a case study of autocratic persistence under the prolonged rule of ...

Poverty is more prevalent in female-headed households (45.7%) than in male-headed ones (45.2%). Women remain more vulnerable, with more limited access to economic opportunities, education, health care ...

Indeed, the Togo Poverty and Gender Assessment report indicates that while rural areas remain the most poverty-stricken regions in Togo, with 58.7% of the population living in poverty, urban areas are ...

Located in the Gulf of Guinea, Togo is one of the poorest countries in the world with a poverty rate of 45.50%. The agricultural sector in Togo, which contributes more than 40% of the country’s ...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, whose family has run the West African nation for 58 years, faces mounting protests ...

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

The writer Let’s keep our Togolese neighbors and Ugandan brethren in our thoughts and prayers as they confront the entrenched appetite of their ruling elites, who twist democratic principles to hang ...

We write in advance of the 94th pre-session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child and its review of Togo. This submission includes information on teenage pregnancy, child marriage, and the ...

In this article, we discuss the 30 Countries With Extreme Poverty. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of the subject, you can go directly to 10 Countries With Extreme Poverty. The ...

Beginning in late 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, the mobile phones of tens of thousands of impoverished villagers in Togo pinged with good news. Their money was ready. With the ...