Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

A planned joint hydroelectric project with neighboring Togo is intended to reduce Benin's dependence on imported energy mostly from Ghana, which currently accounts for a significant proportion of the country's imports.

* Wassa wassa, is another variety of couscous made in northern Togo made from yams.

* 1991: The first pan-African Esperanto Conference is held in Lomé, Togo.

This is a departure from Nkrumah's foreign policy approach ; Nkrumah was frequently accused of subverting African regimes, such as Togo and Côte d ' Ivoire, which he considered ideologically conservative.

Native speakers of Hausa, the Hausa people are mostly to be found in Niger and in the north of Nigeria, but the language is used as a trade language across a much larger swathe of West Africa ( Benin, Ghana, Cameroon, Togo, Côte d ' Ivoire etc.

There are no railways in Niger, although Niger is a user of the Benin and Togo railway lines which carry goods from seaports to the Niger border.

* The flag of Togo is the only rectangle national flag ( also in history ) with an irrational proportion -- its ratio of lengthes is the mystic golden ratio.

Though Balto is the more famous of the two, and was the dog to deliver the serum to Nome after running the final 53-mile leg, it was Togo who made the longest run of the relay, guiding his musher Leonhard Seppala on a 91-mile journey that included crossing the deadly Norton Sound to Golovin.

Togo is a member of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa ( OHADA ).

Togo is a small West African nation.

It borders the Bight of Benin in the south ; Ghana lies to the west ; Benin to the east ; and to the north Togo is bound by Burkina Faso.

The south of Togo is characterized by a savanna and woodland plateau which reaches to a coastal plain with extensive lagoons and marshes.

Togo is divided into 5 regions, which are subdivided in turn into 30 prefectures and 1 commune.

With an estimated population of 6, 619, 000 ( as of 2009 ), Togo is the 107th largest country by population.

French is the official language of Togo and is the language of commerce.

As of 2010, the maternal mortality rate per 100, 000 births for Togo is 350, compared with 447. 1 in 2008 and 539. 7 in 1990.

In Togo the number of midwives per 1, 000 live births is 2 and 1 in 67 shows us the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women.

Education in Togo is compulsory for six years.

In Togo, breakfast normally consists of a porridge called aklui zogbon that is eaten with a doughnut tasting round ball called botoquoin.

Little is known about the history of Togo before the late fifteenth century, when Portuguese explorers arrived, although there are signs of Ewe settlement for several centuries before their arrival.

Most of the information here is derived from the U. S. Department of State website on Togo.

A few small enclaves lie further east and inland in Togo and Benin.

* ( at the time the empire occupied Burundi, Cameroon, small parts of China, partially Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Namibia, northeastern Nigeria, Palau, northern Papua New Guinea, partially Poland, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Samoa, mainland Tanzania, and Togo )

* Togo, Saskatchewan, a small village in eastern Saskatchewan, Canada

The path of totality of the Moon's shadow began at sunrise in Brazil and extended across the Atlantic to Africa, traveling across Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Libya, and a small corner of northwest Egypt, from there across the Mediterranean Sea to Greece ( Kastellórizo ) and Turkey, then across the Black Sea via Georgia, Russia, and Kazakhstan to Western Mongolia, where it ended at sunset.

Bunkpurugu is a small town and is the capital of Bunkpurugu-Yunyoo district, a district in the Northern Region of Ghana, close to the border with Togo.

Mr. Olympio is also the son the first elected president of Togo and father of the small country's independence movement, former President Sylvanus Olympio, who was assassinated in a 1963 coup led by Gnassingbe Eyadema.

When choosing his team, Seppala had deliberately passed over the black husky in favor of Togo, a champion racer.

Togo was a Siberian Husky, his coat was black, brown, and gray, and he weighed about 48 pounds ( 22 kg ).

Examples include India (" cleft " between its Hindu majority and large Muslim minority ), Ukraine (" cleft " between its Eastern Rite Catholic-dominated western section and its Orthodox-dominated east ), France ( cleft between Sub-Saharan African, in the case of French Guiana ; and the West ), Benin, Chad, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo ( all cleft between Islam and Sub-Saharan Africa ), Guyana and Suriname ( cleft between Hindu and Sub-Saharan African ), China ( cleft between Sinic, Buddhist, in the case of Tibet ; and the West, in the case of Hong Kong and Macau ), and the Philippines ( cleft between Islam, in the case of Mindanao ; Sinic, and the West ).

By the end of the 16th century, Oyo had added the western region of the Niger to the hills of Togo, the Yoruba of Ketu, Dahomey, and the Fon nation.

The economy of Togo is refers to the economic activity of the West African nation of Togo.

The divided Togoland became two separate League of Nations mandates on 20 July 1922: British Togoland, which joined Gold Coast ( present day Ghana ) in 1956, and French Togoland, which is now the nation of Togo.

Togoland was a German protectorate in West Africa from 1884 to 1914, encompassing what is now the nation of Togo and most of what is now the Volta Region of Ghana.

The Leopards beat Togo and drew with Angola before being eliminated by the host nation in the last-eight.

The Ewe ( Eʋeawó " Ewe people ", Eʋedukɔ ́ " Ewe nation ") are a people located in southern Togo, southern Benin, and south-eastern parts of the Volta Region of Ghana.

In 1991, the government of Togo became the first African nation to invite the Mercy Ship Anastanis to dock and provide free surgical care.

Most of the original music was composed and performed by the Konami Computer Entertainment ( KCE ) Sound Team Japan ( comprising Takanari Ishiyama, Gigi Meroni, Kazuki Muraoka, Lee Jeon Myung and Hiroyuki Togo ), with the exception of the " Metal Gear Solid Main Theme ", composed by TAPPY, and " The Best Is Yet to Come ", composed by Rika Muranaka and performed by Aoife Ní Fhearraigh.

Togo long served as a regional banking center, but that position has been eroded by the political instability and economic downturn of the early 1990s.

Currently, there are approximately 500, 000 Ajas in an area straddling the border between Benin and Togo, thirty miles long and twenty miles ( 32 km ) wide.