Togo: the president returns the new Constitution to the Assembly for a second reading. Adopted at the beginning of the week by the Assembly, the text plans to transition Togo to a new Republic.
There would no longer be a presidential election by direct universal suffrage. The leader of the majority party in the Assembly would become de facto president of the Council for a six-year term. The adoption on the night of Monday to Tuesday aroused the anger of part of the opposition and within civil society.