Togo security blocks opposition quarters

LOME – Security forces have blocked off three roads leading to Togo’s opposition party headquarters.

Police spokesman Colonel Damehane Yark says police are there to prevent opposition supporters from blocking nearby boulevards.An Associated Press reporter on Monday saw roughly 60 anti-riot police with their shields lined to create a blockade.Togo’s top opposition candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre vowed on Sunday to take to the streets every day to protest what he says was an election rigged to favour the son of the country’s longtime dictator. He was let into headquarters after a two-hour standoff with police. – Nampa-AP