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Mediation for the crisis in Togo: The UN must take the bull by the horns



The socio-political situation is still volatile in Togo. The crisis unleashed two months ago continues to claim victims with every new call for opposition. To get the country out of this bad past, mediations are triggered. From the United Nations to the African Union (AU) through the Community of West African States (ECOWAS), entities work to avoid the worst. But the approaches of each other remain for the moment without effect.



August 19, 2017. This date is definitely marked in contemporary history for the democratic struggle in Togo. Indeed, this date has sounded the awakening of the Togolese opposition who has long been abused by the power in place. The leader of the National Pan-African Party (Pnp), Tikpi Atchadam, has already made two months of efforts to revive the fight for hope and alternation through mobilization at the national and international levels.

Since then, Togo is in the middle of a socio-political crisis. The pathways for a crisis-free outburst are not yet found. Between inter-Togolese dialogue and subregional mediation, the proposals flow. While ECOWAS and the Representative of the UN Secretary General initially supported the referendum, the positions evolved on both sides. Today some ECOWAS countries are clearly against the referendum, while the UN Secretary-General has called for dialogue. But the power of Lomé is slow to open this dialogue in the conditions demanded by the opposition.

Faced with the situation that is bogged down, the head of the United Nations set up a Council of 5 African Heads of State. They are the presidents of Benin, Patrice Talon, Burkina Faso, RochMarc Christian Kaboré, Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara and Niger, Mahamadou Issoufou. This mission since last week is at the heart of the talks between the actors of the Togolese socio-political scene. Patrice Talon's come and go between Lomé and Ouaga The instructions given last week by the Ivorian Ouatara after exchanges with the Ghanaian neighbor are important signs. But all these negotiations do not seem to convince the regime in place in Togo to abandon the idea of ​​a referendum to open the dialogue.

To increase the notch, the stubbornness of the Lomé authorities must lead the UN to review its strategy by first suspending the other mediations to be the only interlocutor in this crisis before handing over, if necessary, to the leaders of the State of the subregion. Thus, the outcome heard by the Togolese people could quickly happen.

Today, there is a need to speed up negotiations for a peaceful end to the crisis. Since it must be remembered, the political crisis has already claimed the lives of a dozen people and left hundreds wounded. And the upcoming events are coming even more alive.

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