West African leaders condemn Togo
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West African leaders refuse to recognise Togo's new leadership and threaten to impose sanctions.
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Togo's Faure Gnassingbe was formally sworn  in as president on Monday after his father's sudden death,  despite strong condemnation from former colonial power France  and African leaders who branded the succession  unconstitutional.
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France on Saturday mourned the loss of a "friend" with the death of Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema, who with more than 37 years at the helm was Africa's longest-serving leader.
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Togo will hold presidential elections  within 60 days, agreeing to demands from African leaders to  defuse a crisis that sparked violent protests and international  outrage, a government official said on Tuesday.
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November 15, 2004 -- ABUJA, Nigeria - West African leaders held a crisis summit yesterday over unrest in Ivory Coast, as the beleaguered country&#39;s president took a tough stance, sacking his army chief and installing a more hard-line officer in his place
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West African leaders including Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo met in Nigeria trying to re-start Ivory Coast's stalled peace process and prevent more unrest in the divided country.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, involved in a row with France over the 1994 genocide in his country, further criticized French involvement in Africa on Monday, blaming some of the continent's woes on Paris.
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World figures condemn the succession of President Eyadema's son after his father's death.
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West African diplomats arrive in Togo on the day their ultimatum threatening sanctions expires.
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Togo turned away a plane carrying  Nigerian peacemakers Thursday night, drawing threats of  sanctions and accusations from Nigeria that it was blocking  efforts to resolve a crisis widely condemned as a military  coup.
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Leaders at a summit in Burkina Faso of mostly French-speaking nations have condemned authorities in divided Ivory Coast for resuming hostilities in the rebel-held north earlier this month.
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Togo refuses landing to a plane carrying a top African team trying to resolve a constitutional crisis there.
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Togo's neighbours threaten sanctions if its "coup" leaders fail to attend talks in Niger on Saturday.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday condemned an attempt by a French group to spirit more than 100 children out of Chad on the grounds that they were orphans from Darfur in danger of being killed.
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Togo's armed forces said Faure Gnassingbe,  the son of former president Gnassingbe Eyadema, would assume  power in the West African country following the death of his  father earlier on Saturday.
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Leaders of the private sector in Ivory Coast have blamed the government for the widespread looting against their businesses earlier this month.
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World leaders unite in condemnation as opposition groups warn killing threatens to tear country apart