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| Togo Interim Leader: Elections Will Go On |
| 2005-04-23 |
| Togo's interim head of state vowed presidential elections will go ahead Sunday — and fired his security minister who had called for the ballot to be canceled because of fears of bloodshed. The apparent split within the government comes as tensions have been mounting in this tiny West African nation. There was no immediate response from the generals who wield much of the power here or the late dictator's son, who was expected to win the race. "The polls will go ahead as planned," interim President Abbas Bonfoh told Radio France International on Friday. Warning of violence and saying the poll would be "suicide," Interior Minister Francois Boko, who is in charge of security, called a press conference to make a public appeal to cancel the vote. |
| Posted by:Fred |