Togo to pick new leader in key democracy test vote
Voters in the small west African country of Togo go to the polls on Thursday to pick a new president in a poll seen as a test of democratic progress in a nation notorious for electoral violence. Six opposition candidates are challenging the outgoing President Faure Gnassingbe, who came to power in 2005 after the death of his father, General Gnassingbe Eyadema, whose dictatorial rule lasted 38 years.