Soldiers in Togo used tear gas and batons on Thursday to disperse hundreds of protesters who blocked main roads in the capital. The protests have been going on since Wednesday, to denounce a power grab by longtime leader Faure Gnassingbé and demand his resignation.
"The city is unusually quiet," a witness in the capital, Lomé, told RFI on Thursday evening. Shop shutters are down, traders in the central market have not opened their stalls, and traffic is almost nonexistent.
