A German cultural centre has been gutted in an arson attack in the Togo capital, Lome, in the latest outbreak of violence after disputed elections. The early morning attack by masked men wearing black ...

German companies in Togo Madelaine Meier / gu 03/05/2015 March 5, 2015. The small Togolese Republic is becoming an important trade and transport hub in West Africa. Its middle class is growing.

Black-clad, masked assailants torched a German cultural center in crisis-hit Togo, while the man officially named winner of violently contested presidential elections vowed not to let the country slip ...

But Togo and Germany have historical ties. Until World War II, Togo was a German colony. "There is a great deal of openness on the part of the Togolese," Volker Berresheim adds.

LOME, April 29: A firebomb razed the German cultural institute in Togo’s capital Lome on Friday and troops turned up ...

03/07/2024 March 7, 2024. In July 1884, the imperial German flag was raised for the first time on the African continent — not in Tanzania or Namibia, but in Togo.

Pirates released a German-owned tanker off Togo on Friday, a day after capturing it, the International Maritime Bureau said as it warned of a rising number of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea.

During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were recorded and ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The German Colony of Togo ” in SA Supplements Vol. 52 No. 1336supp (August 1901), p. 21414 doi:10.1038 ...

LOME, April 29: A firebomb razed the German cultural institute in Togo’s capital Lome on Friday and troops turned up the heat on the opposition, shattering a brief calm after a violently ...