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| Africa Live: Court hands ex-Liberian rebel leader 30-year sentence - BBC News | Africa Live: Court hands ex-Liberian rebel leader 30-year sentence - BBC News |
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| Police in Togo have broken up an opposition news conference that was called to address a controversial constitutional reform. | |
| On Monday, the parliament voted for a new constitution which changes the presidential system to a parliamentary one. | |
| But with less than a month before legislative elections, the opposition fears the change will clear the way for the long-serving President, Faure Gnassingbe, to remain in power indefinitely. | |
| Around 30 police officers armed with truncheons broke up the gathering called by opposition parties and civil society groups on Wednesday. | |
| Police said the event in the capital, Lome, was not authorised. | |
| Nathaniel Olympio, the event organiser, termed the new constitution a "coup" that seeks to deprive the Togolese people of the right to choose their president, AFP news agency reported. | |
| "I call on the Togolese people to stand up and stop this disastrous plan," Mr Olympio said. | |
| It is not clear when the changes, proposed by lawmakers mostly from the ruling Union for the Republic (UNIR), will come into force. | |
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