Togo holds first local elections since controversial power shift

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Voters are expected to elect leaders of the country’s 117 municipalities. President Faure Gnassingbe, 59, is not formally on the ballot himself, yet the poll will be a test of Gnassingbe’s popularity with calls to widespread anti-government protests on July 16 and 17.

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