From Ajazeera

The Gnassingbe family has run the small West African nation since the current president’s father took power in 1967.

Friday’s protest came a week after police in the capital Lome used teargas on oogipposition supporters who defied government orders not to march on the national assembly building.

Togo’s Security and Civil Protection Ministry announced in a statement read on state television then that all necessary measures would be taken to prevent opposition demonstrators from reaching the parliament building

The opposition had called for a massive protest on Friday, but the turnout was smaller than last week’s demonstration.

“It is in Faure Gnassingbe’s interest to rule out a third term in order to avoid problems in this country,” Zeus Ajavon, coordinator of Let’s Save Togo, a coalition of opposition and civil society groups, told the AFP news agency.

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