#togo

#togo

It opened my eyes, he says. I had heard stories, but it opened my eyes to the reality of what my dad faced growing up, the conditions. And you're fighting against the [odds]. If we're in a race with the rest of the world, you're starting further behind [in Togo] than, let's say, we are in Canada. So I thought to myself, if one day we can come back as a family, do something.

A courtyard house in Lome's Adakpame district built with compressed earth blocks.

Polling stations in Togo's capital Lome were largely deserted on Thursday, following a rise in public anger over constitutional changes that could extend leader Faure Gnassingbe's rule indefinitely.

We’re hungry. Nothing works for Togolese youth anymore, that’s why we’re going out to protest this morning, said Kossi Albert, a 30-year-old unemployed man.