Togo’s Dynasty Faces Mounting Protests Over Decades-Long Rule

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé, whose family has run the West African nation for 58 years, faces mounting protests fanned by a maneuver that has set him up to rule for life.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched in the capital, Lome, on Thursday to demand his exit and will do so again on Friday and Saturday, said David Dosseh, a spokesman for Front Citoyen Togo Debout, an umbrella civil society group. The protests followed demonstrations on June 5 and 6.