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Octavianus was only 18 years old when he ascended the Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church and became Pope John XII on December 16, 955. He was the only son of Duke Alberic II (932–954) of Spoleto, then ruler of Rome. Alberic, before his death in 954, made Roman nobles swear at St. Peter's altar that they would make his son, Octavianus, pope at the first vacancy. Since the leaders loved the dying father, they kept their word to him and elected Octavianus as the 130th Roman Catholic Pope succeeding Pope Agapetus II after the pope’s death on November 8, 955. Octavianus adopted the apostolic name of John XII. He was the third pontiff to take a regnal name upon elevation to the papal chair; the first being Pope John II (533–535), whose birth name was Mercurius and the second, Pope John III (561–574), whose birth name was Catelinus. Right from the start, in relation to secular issues, the new pope issued his directives under the name of Octavianus, while in all matters relating t

The Kara region, specifically the Kozah prefecture, has been the subject of a political embargo that has been unheard of for months. Saturday, the wolves defending this locality have reissued the demonstration of their dislike for all that is initiative of an opposition member, on the person of the leader of the Socialist Pact for Renewal, PSR.  Party 420 km north of Lome to train young people in Kara as part of a project called ambassadors of democracy and citizenship initiated by Professor Komi WOLOU, supporters of the old order simply ordered the evacuation of places, in full formation. The initiator Komi Wolou reassures to have carried out all the administrative formalities, before assembling young people of the Kozah at the hotel MIRA, just at the entrance of the city of Kara Saturday. This did not prevent the elements of the gendarmerie to disembark without warning, blur the work session on the lookout for a strong evacuation of the occupants of the premises. The initi

The largest hotel in Togo has a new operator. It is Emaar Hospitality Group, a real estate company based in Dubai specializing in hospitality and leisure.  The Emaar Hospitality Group has just taken over the operation of the 2 February Hotel. It has signed a contract with the Kaylan Hospitality Development (KHD) concessionaire and aims to make better use of the flagship of Togolese tourism. It is with this in mind that a new Director General, the German Marcel Brekelmans was appointed a few weeks ago. After the departure of Carlson Redizor who operated the hotel, after its renovation, under the brand Radisson, left in August 2017 Togo for "dissensions on the management and development strategy," it is said. The new operator owns a dozen operational hotels and residences under the brand name Address Hotels + Resorts.

The Minister of Security and Civil Protection, Yark Damehane is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General of the Togolese Armed Forces (FAT), the Afreepress News Agency has learned from several sources close to the mute.  Several other FAT officers also obtained promotions, such as the Chief of General Staff of the Togolese Armed Forces, Brigadier General Félix Kadhanga who became a Major General while his deputy Colonel ADJITOWU Komlan was elevated to the rank of Brigadier General. A few days ago, several sources gave for seriously bedridden, Minister Yark Damehane. An information denied by his entourage that speaks of "rough editing". This appointment comes to situate the opinion and fix the ones and the others on the state of availability of the former boss of the national gendarmerie.

This assessment was prepared before the national and international media professionals in Lomé this morning, by the Coalition of 14 opposition parties at the CDPA headquarters in Akassimé, Lomé.  If everyone was able to observe the special forces of the gendarmerie USIG, the military, police and gendarmes heavily armed tracking civilians everywhere in Togo on April 11, 12 and 14 in Lomé, the record was mixed since worn by unofficial sources. The opposition this morning, clarifies the situation: "One dead, 174 wounded including 92 in serious condition among which women and children. 253 arrests including 227 released to date. The rest, 26 people held in the Lomé civil prison and one person in Kpalimé in his capacity as PNP Federal Secretary "indicates the statement of the coalition of 14 opposition parties. But that's not all. Still on the assets of the Togolese Armed Forces, the coalition denounces a number of "significant material damage to the property of

"An opposition leader in the wrong place at the wrong time: What was Jean-Pierre Fabre looking for on the Saturday night at the February 2 hotel?" Asked the confrere of the newspaper "Awakening of the Nation" in its publication N ° 549 of Tuesday, April 17, 2018. At a press conference on Wednesday morning in Lomé, the interested party provided some answers to the question.  "In principle, I should let Madam Brigitte Adjamagbo Johnson answer this question. Because on Saturday after the repressions, I was quietly resting when she told me that the Minister of Security of Ghana, Mr. Albert Kan-Dapaah, would like to meet me. So she sent me. She is responsible for this situation now [laughs]. If she had not told me that the Minister of Security, Albert Kan-Dapaah was trying to meet me, today no one would say that Jean-Pierre Fabre went to betray the people. Those who wait for me to betray the people, will wait a long time, "said the leader of the Togoles

The extraordinary session of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), devoted to the crisis in Guinea Bissau, ended on Saturday, April 14, 2018 in Lome.  Several recommendations were made to the politicians of Guinea-Bissau, but also to Togolese political leaders. "The follow-up committee set up by ECOWAS will accompany step by step the process of standardization in Guinea Bissau, said Robert Dussey, the Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs. A commitment that has materialized in the appointment on Monday, April 16, 2018, of a new Prime Minister and the resumption of the normal functioning of the Guinea-Bissau institutions in the image of the parliament which resumes its sessions. The situation in Togo has also been studied. The Heads of State and Government solemnly called on "all political parties and civil society to refrain from any acts of violence and all acts that may constitute a threat to the peace and

Winnie Mandela, one of the anti-apartheid figures, died last Monday at the age of 81. The Togolese Head of State salutes the memory of "a great icon".  It was on his twitter account that Faure Gnassingbé reacted following the death of Winnie Mandela, a fierce fighter of apartheid. "Africa loses a great icon of the struggle for freedom and the right of peoples to oppose alienation. All our condolences to the rainbow nation and the family of the deceased, "he writes. The Togolese head of state wants "to express (his) deep compassion and that of his compatriots, towards the South African people weeping over the disappearance of Mrs. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela". Very popular in her country, the "mother of the nation" was the wife of Nelson Mandela, the first black president of Africa in Africa. They divorced in 1996. A controversial figure, she died Monday, April 2, 2018 at 2 pm at Milkpark Hospital in Johannesburg. The funeral ceremonies

The inaction of the Coalition of 14 against the procrastination of the regime does not reassure the diaspora. In a message to the Togolese people, Antoine Randolph, one of the leaders of the Togolese Resistance Committee (CTR) invites him to resume his struggle for liberation.  CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE PEOPLE REVEALS ON THE BIG DAY! Dear Patriotes of the Togolese Resistance, Dear fellow citizens, Thanks to the initiative of the PNP - Pan-African National Party - and its President, Master Atchadam Tikpi, the people resolutely stood up on 19 August against the neocolonial, military and mafia dictatorship ruled by the Gnassingbe for 50 years. The people realized that day that they could regain their freedom, regain justice and take their destiny to rebuild Togo, plunged into misery and suffering multiple fractures. It is these deep and legitimate aspirations that animate the people to remain standing for seven months without fail and that they accept immense sacrifices caused

The serenity within the coalition of 14 political parties seems to be undermined in recent days. Originally, the call of the National Panafrican Party (Pnp) to a series of marches that should be held from yesterday Tuesday to end next Saturday, after a break on Friday. In response to the coalition's letter to this effect, the Minister of Territorial Administration replied with a No. And the discordant reactions were not long in the other parties of the coalition who openly denounce the "cavalier" approach of the party of Tikpi Atchadam, which runs counter to a fundamental principle, group discipline.  An approach that divides The approach had sown a monstrous confusion within the opposition when, last Tuesday, through an audio message abundantly relayed on social networks, the national party Panafricain (Pnp) called for the resumption of the marches of protest against Faure Gnassingbe's regime. How, then, can we understand such a turnaround, which seems to be

The Council of Ministers met on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at the Palace of the Presidency of the Republic, under the chairmanship of His Excellency, Mr. Faure Essozimna GNASSINGBE, President of the Republic.  The Council has: - adopted a bill and two (2) decrees; - followed four (4) communications and various; Under the bill The bill passed by the council, authorizes the ratification of the statutes of the financial company called "Africa 50 - project financing" and "Africa 50 - development of projects", adopted on July 29, 2015 in Casablanca . Created at the initiative of twenty-two (22) African countries including Togo and three (3) African financial institutions namely Bank Al-Maghrib, the African Development Bank (AfDB), "Africa 50 - Project Financing" aims to mobilize investors' long-term savings in commercially viable African infrastructure projects. It is a company that relies on the financial commitment of African countries t

Once upon a time, a woman who should have been in the big book of records for having had an exponential number of lovers, hold on; these were 7.6 billion. Every day, for this woman was in the image of Valentine's Day because they all proved by small gestures or big how much she counted for them. She and her lovers lived in harmony without hindrance (...) »  What utopia! You say after reading these first lines is not it? It is true that it looks like a real fairy tale. Never stop! Like Martin Luther King, I too: "I had a dream, a dream in which the 7.6 billion inhabitants of planet Earth were eco-responsible citizens, citizens united in the fight against change climate, people who are passionately in love with the planet and who put their wellbeing before theirs ". The planet Earth knows a decisive era where every action could be the one that changes the course of things or the one that accelerates the arrival of the eminent apocalypse. The global temperature is

This Wednesday, March 21, 2018 is held in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, the Extraordinary Summit of the African Union (AU) which will be mainly devoted to the signing of the protocol of institution establishing the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) .  The Togolese Head of State, Faure Gnassingbé, current President of the Conference of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, will not miss this international meeting. During this summit convened by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, AU's current Chair, African leaders will lay the groundwork for the CFTA, which is one of the priority areas of the African Union's Agenda 2063. It will also be question for these African heads of state to find ways and means to facilitate trade between the 54 countries that abound the black continent. ZLEC, this ambitious project delivered in June 2015 at a summit of the African Union, carries with it a vision of development of the African continent over the next 5 decades based on inclusi

Batammariba (also known as Tamberma, Somba, Bataba, Batammaraba, Ditamari, Niend and Tamari) are agro-pastoralist Oti-Volta, Gur-speaking and indigenous architecturally advanced people living in the mountainous regions of two West African countries of Togo and Benin.    Tamberma (Batammariba) women wearing their traditional antelope headdress, Togo. Yves Regaldi In Togo, they are residing in the northeastern Kara regions of Northern Togo with the Kabye (kabre) people,who are the second largest tribe in Togo.                                      Tamberma (Batamariba) woman wearing antelope hedddress,Togo  However, Batammariba are internationally famous than their neighbours, Kabye people, as a result of their indigenous architectural expertise. In Benin where they are known as Somba, they occupy the rugged Atakora mountain range (Atakora Department) of northwestern Benin sharing border with their Gur relatives in neighbour

All predictions currently give an implosion of the Coalition of 14 opposition parties since the incidents related to the cancellation of the events scheduled this week. For Mrs. Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, It's "prophecies of misery" without a future.  "The Togolese people have risen since August 19, 2017 again to complete the fight they started since the 1990s. And today we come to an important turning point. We remain mobilized, "says the Coordinator of the Coalition 14. She believes that in case" the opponent ", that is to say, the power of Faure Gnassingbe, remains resistant to change, the Coalition" intensify " his actions. But it is utopian to pretend to divide this regrouping of the opposition which disturbs the sleep to Faure Gnassingbé. "I wanted to go beyond you to the Togolese people. I want to tell them to reassure themselves. Not to worry for a moment about what's going on these days on social networks.

The UNIR party sets up its bases in Tchamba and Kadambara in the central region. Thus, the presidential party is actively preparing for the elections and its political hegemony while the parties of the Coalition of the opposition agree with the exception of the PNP to suspend the marches, always in the logic of the dialogue which tramples. Tikpi Salifou Atchadam does not understand anything anymore and calls for the analysis of his activists.  "Indeed I tell you, we could not move any line without these great mobilizations" reveals the leader of the Pan-African National Party. Following the conclave held by the 14 opposition parties on Monday, it emerged that all parties except the PNP agreed to suspend the march and rely on the Ghanaian facilitator. who clamored at the beach: "The demonstrations are a constitutional right and no one can prevent the people from demonstrating" The militants of PNP very reassembled informed of the coalition's conclusion