Many residents stayed indoors as thick black smoke wafted across the city. The army tried to install Mr Faure after his father died but pressure led him to step down and call an election. Security forces patrolled the streets in a truck, armed with assault rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, reports the Reuters news agency.
| It's a small country, the other truck had a flat. |
Mr Faure received 60% of the votes, while main opposition candidate Emmanuel Bob-Akitani got 38% of votes cast, said electoral commission chairwoman Kissem Tchangai Walla. "In view of these results... the candidate of the RPT has been provisionally elected," she said. However, she said the results did not include
| Not that there is any doubt |
Earlier, UFC leader Gilchrist Olympio, who was barred from standing, said his party would not serve as a minority partner in any unity government. He said there had been "massive fraud" in the poll. Mr Olympio was ineligible to stand in the poll because he lives in exile following a 1992 assassination attempt.
Regional powerhouse Nigeria had said that Mr Olympio and Mr Faure had agreed to share power in a bid to calm tensions.
| Did Nigeria clear this with the UN? |
During the campaign, Mr Faure, 39 was portrayed as the candidate for a new Togo even though his father had run the country for 38 years - in contrast to Mr Akitani, 75. His support base is in the north, while the opposition is strongest in the south, including the capital, Lome. Last week, the interior minister called for the polls to be postponed for fear that civil war might break out. He was sacked and sought sanctuary in the German embassy. Seven people were reportedly killed in pre-election violence. Mr Faure's father, Gnassingbe Eyadema died in February after ruling Togo for 38 years. He had seized power in a coup from Mr Olympio's father, Sylvanus, in 1963.
| Another place where everyone is related and swaps coups once a generation. |