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- Government
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- Long-form name: Republic of Togo
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- Type: republic; under transition to multiparty democratic rule
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- Capital: Lome
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- Administrative divisions: 21 circumscriptions
- (circonscriptions, singular - circonscription); Amlame (Amou),
- Aneho (Lacs), Atakpame (Ogou), Badou (Wawa), Bafilo (Assoli),
- Bassar (Bassari), Dapango (Tone), Kande (Keran), Klouto
- (Kloto), Pagouda (Binah), Lama-Kara (Kozah), Lome (Golfe), Mango
- (Oti), Niamtougou (Doufelgou), Notse (Haho), Pagouda,
- Sotouboua, Tabligbo (Yoto), Tchamba, Nyala, Tchaoudjo, Tsevie
- (Zio), Vogan (Vo); note - the 21 units may now be called
- prefectures (prefectures, singular - prefecture) and reported
- name changes for individual units are included in parentheses
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- Independence: 27 April 1960 (from UN trusteeship under French
- administration, formerly French Togo)
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- Constitution: 1980 constitution nullified during national
- reform conference; transition constitution adopted 24 August
- 1991; multiparty draft constitution sent to High Council of the
- Republic for approval in November 1991, scheduled to be put to
- public referendum in NA 1992
-
- Legal system: French-based court system
-
- National holiday: Independence Day 27 April (1960)
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- Executive branch: president, prime minister, Council of
- Ministers (cabinet)
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- Legislative branch: National Assembly dissolved during national
- reform conference; 79-member interim High Council for the
- Republic (HCR) formed to act as legislature during transition to
- multiparty democracy; legislative elections scheduled to be held
- in NA
-
- Judicial branch: Court of Appeal (Cour d'Appel), Supreme Court
- (Cour Supreme)
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- Leaders:
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- Chief of State: President Gen. Gnassingbe EYADEMA (since 14
- April 1967)
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- Head of Government: interim Prime Minister Joseph Kokou
- KOFFIGOH (since 28 August 1991)
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- Political parties and leaders: Rally of the Togolese People
- (RPT) led by President EYADEMA was the only party until the
- formation of multiple parties was legalized 12 April 1991; more
- than 10 parties formed as of mid-May, though none yet legally
- registered; a national conference to determine transition
- regime took place 10 July-28 August 1991
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- Suffrage: universal adult at age NA
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- Elections:
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- President: last held 21 December 1986 (next to be held NA
- 1992); results - Gen. EYADEMA was reelected without opposition
-
- National Assembly: last held 4 March 1990; dissolved during
- national reform conference (next to be held April/May 1992);
- results - RPT was the only party; seats - (77 total) RPT 77
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- Member of: ACCT, ACP, AfDB, CEAO (observer), ECA, ECOWAS,
- Entente, FAO, FZ, G-77, GATT, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, IDA, IFAD, IFC,
- ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, ITU, LORCS, NAM, OAU,
- UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WADB, WCL, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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- Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Ellom-Kodjo SCHUPPIUS;
- Chancery at 2208 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008;
- telephone (202) 234-4212 or 4213
-
- US: Ambassador Harmon E. KIRBY; Embassy at Rue Pelletier
- Caventou and Rue Vauban, Lome (mailing address is B. P. 852,
- Lome); telephone [228] 21-29-91 through 94 and 21-77-17; FAX
- [228] 21-79-52
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- Flag: five equal horizontal bands of green (top and bottom)
- alternating with yellow; there is a white five-pointed star on a
- red square in the upper hoist-side corner; uses the popular
- pan-African colors of Ethiopia
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