However, Patassé, who was living in exile in Togo, could not be ruled out as a leader of a future uprising.

Nineteen-year-old Fauziya Kasinga, a member of the Tchamba-Kunsuntu tribe of Togo, was granted asylum in 1996 after leaving an arranged marriage to escape FGM, setting a precedent in U. S. immigration law because FGM was for the first time accepted as a form of persecution.

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.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

Nepal was ranked 54th worst of 81 ranked countries ( those with GHI > 5. 0 ) on the Global Hunger Index in 2011, between Cambodia and Togo.

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.

In April 2012, Togo was ranked 156th in Gross National Happiness-GNH World Happiness report published by the earth institute.

The slave trade began in the 16th century, and for the next two hundred years the coastal region was a major trading center for Europeans in search of slaves, earning Togo and the surrounding region the name " The Slave Coast ".

On 24 April 2005, Gnassingbé was elected President of Togo, receiving over 60 % of the vote according to official results.

Until 2006, Togo was very much a minor force in world football, but like fellow West African nations such as Senegal, Nigeria and Cameroon before them, the Togolese national team finally qualified for the World Cup.

Togo was knocked out of the tournament in the group stage after losing to South Korea, Switzerland and France.

On the 8th January 2010, The Togo National Football team's bus was fired upon in Angola whilst attending the African Nations Cup being held there.

On 26 November 2011, former Togo goalkeeper Charles Balogou was among six people killed when a bus, carrying players and officials from the Etoile Filante delegation, plunged into a ravine 130 kilometers north of Lomé and caught fire.

By 2001, Togo was embarked on an IMF Staff Monitored Program designed to restore macroeconomic stability and financial discipline but without any new IMF resources pending new legislative elections.

As of the fall 2002, Togo was $ 15 million in arrears to the World Bank and owed $ 3 million to the ADB.

In November 2009, he was selected by Defense Secretary Robert Gates-along with former Veterans and Army Secretary Togo West-to lead the military investigation into the Fort Hood massacre.

In 2008, the largest number of cases was recorded in Togo.

* Togo Tanaka ( 1916 – 2009 ), editor of the Rafu Shimpo newspaper, he was sent to the Manzanar, where he used his journalism experience to document conditions in the camp.

Togo was promoted to rear admiral at the end of the war, in 1895.

The couple had two sons ; the elder son, Ryo ( 1885 – 1969 ), succeeded his father as the second Marquess Togo in 1934 and held the title until the kazoku was abolished in 1947.

Earth Day 2007 was one of the largest Earth Days to date, with an estimated billion people participating in the activities in thousands of places like Kiev, Ukraine ; Caracas, Venezuela ; Tuvalu ; Manila, Philippines ; Togo ; Madrid, Spain ; London ; and New York.

Admiral Togo Heihachiro was commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War.

As freshmen, their musical partnership began inauspiciously, playing local bars in mock-ska band Skabba the Hut, which also included CSI: Miami star Jonathan Togo.

However, most mushers consider Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog Togo to be the true heroes of the run.

The longest and most hazardous stretch of the run was actually covered by another Norwegian, Leonhard Seppala and his dog team, led by Togo.

* Togo ( dog )

Seppala was also the owner of Togo, whom he personally used to lead his dog team during the relay.

* Togo ( character ), Nancy Drew's dog

* Togo ( dog ) ( 1913 – 1929 ), a sled dog who became famous during a 1925 serum run to Nome across the U. S. territory of Alaska.

Togo ( October 1913 – December 5, 1929 ) was the sled dog who led Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team as they covered the longest distance in the 1925 relay of diphtheria antitoxin from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, to combat an outbreak of the disease.

Immediately after the relay, Togo and another dog on the team escaped to chase after reindeer, eventually returning to their kennel in Little Creek.

His lead dog Togo was equally famous for his leadership, intelligence, and ability to sense danger.

Leonhard Seppala and his dog sled team, with his lead dog Togo, traveled from Nome from January 27 to January 31 into the oncoming storm.

After his death, Seppala had Togo preserved and mounted, and today the dog is on display in a glass case at the Iditarod museum in Wasilla, Alaska.

( Seppala's lead dog was the famous racing champion Togo.

* 1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.

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.

* Action Committee for Renewal ( Comité d ' Action pour la Renouveau ), a political party of Togo

Cape Verde, Rwanda, and Togo as non-member states, have been approved for membership, and will each become a Member State once it deposits the necessary legal instrument.

* 2010 – Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.

These changes paved the way for the ECOWAS peacekeeping mission to expand into a 3, 600-strong force, constituted by Benin, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo.

Vowel inventories of this type are still found in some branches of Niger – Congo, for example in the Ghana Togo Mountain languages.

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

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.

* Key Development Forecasts for Togo from International Futures

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.

In addition to textiles, Togo is an important center for re-export of alcohol, cigarettes, perfume, and used automobiles to neighboring countries.

Togo turned to the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for assistance in 1979, while simultaneously implementing a stringent adjustment effort with the help of a series of IMF standby programs, World Bank loans, and Paris Club debt rescheduling.

Although Togo has railways in place, no trains have run on them for many years.

With the Russians sunk and scattering, Togo prepared for pursuit, and while doing so ordered his torpedo boat destroyers ( TBDs ) ( mostly referred to as just destroyers in most written accounts ) to finish off the Russian battleship.

The importance of cassava to many Africans is epitomised in the Ewe ( a language spoken in Ghana, Togo and Benin ) name for the plant, agbeli, meaning " there is life ".

In Togo, Stabrawa ( 1991 ) assessed postharvest weight losses of 5 % after one month of storage and 15 % after three months of storage due to insect infestation, and Compton ( 1991 ) assessed weight losses of about 9 % for each store in the survey area in Togo.

In May 2009, Israel and Togo signed a " pact for cooperation in the economic, agricultural and educational fields " with each other.