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News24
January 31, 2018
"The strike is well-followed throughout the country. We will take stock tomorrow evening to know what to do in the coming days," SYNPHOT secretary-general Atchi Walla told AFP. At Sylvanus Olympio university hospital, the country's largest health care centre, several departments were closed, according toÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 14, 2018
The excitement over the upcoming Black Panther movie has been so great that the Black Panther movie has also set a new record for advance ticket sales for a Marvel movie. One reason for the excitement is that this is a movie that defies many stereotypes about Africa and African people. The story is set inÃÂ ...
Daily Nation
January 14, 2018
For example, when Togo's first president Sylvanus Olympio decided to issue Togolese national currency and discontinue the CFA franc, he was assassinated by a former French army sergeant, supposedly on the orders of the French government. Without the wealth looted from African countries, the US andÃÂ ...
eNCA
January 14, 2018
The veteran opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre said the date was chosen because Saturday was the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Togo's first post-colonial president, Sylvanus Olympio. Fabre described it as a "fateful date" of broken dreams when "violence and deception entered the country'sÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 13, 2018
Today Togolese people around the world held demonstrations against the regime that has oppressed Togo for the last 51 years. What is especially significant about today's demonstrations is that it marks the 55th anniversary of the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio. Olympio, who was Togo's first president,ÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 11, 2018
Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana into independence in 1957, but he was not satisfied with this. At Ghana's independence celebration Nkrumah expressed his belief that Ghana's independence was meaningless unless it was linked to the total liberation of Africa. Nkrumah presented his vision for a unified AfricaÃÂ ...
The Island.lk
January 2, 2018
But, the Togolese people demanded complete independence, and following UN representations, Sylvanus Olympio's Togolese National Unity Party wonthe elections held in April 1958. Nicholas Grunitzky went in to exile. Togo became fully independent on April 27, 1960 and after the 1961 elections,ÃÂ ...
Foreign Brief
December 31, 2017
The country started out as a promising republic under president Sylvanus Olympio in 1961, after gaining independence in 1960. But this era was cut short when Olympio was assassinated in a military coup led by Faure's father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, in 1963. In 1979, Eyadema allowed elections in the deÃÂ ...
The Herald
December 29, 2017
However, the behaviour of the Nigerian delegation in the current General Assembly now causes some doubt in this regard.” The bluntly-spoken Prime Minister Sylvanus Olympio of Togo said in his deliberations with US officials that he preferred multilateral aid to avoid the “power politics and trouble” that heÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 15, 2017
... vision except that he wanted a Togo free from colonialism and he was working not only for the political liberation of Togo but for the economic freedom of my country. Yes he was a brilliant guy but there were other brilliant freedom fighters in Togo and Sylvanus Olympio only got to rule Togo for three years.
HuffPost
November 21, 2017
Sylvanus Olympio, Togo's first president, was among those who were eliminated. He was assassinated in 1963. Sylvanus Olympio wanted Togo to have a currency of its own rather than continuing to use the French colonial currency. France had other plans, however, and they supported the coup that killedÃÂ ...
News24
September 28, 2017
Togo gained independence from France in 1960 with Sylvanus Olympio as its first president. Olympio resisted Togo's integration into Francafrique, the political framework that bonded former French colonies to France. He wanted out of the French West African franc but agreed to pay an annual debt tax toÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
September 28, 2017
Togo gained independence from France in 1960 with Sylvanus Olympio as its first president. Olympio resisted Togo's integration into Francafrique, the political framework that bonded former French colonies to France. He wanted out of the French West African franc but agreed to pay an annual debt tax toÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
October 17, 2017
Outside the Sylvanus Olympio Hospital in the center of Togo's capital, Lome, assorted mattresses lay on the grass next to full garbage bags.
The Nation Newspaper
October 14, 2017
These leaders like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, Sir, ...
eNCA
September 29, 2017
... at RIT camp in Lome and shot a cow to mark the assassination of Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of independent Togo," said Toulabor.
AllAfrica.com
September 28, 2017
Togo gained independence from France in 1960 with Sylvanus Olympio as its first president. Olympio resisted Togo's integration into ...
AllAfrica.com
August 28, 2017
... gained independence in 1960, there was as brief period of excitement and hope under the leadership of founding father Sylvanus Olympio.
Center for Research on Globalization
September 1, 2017
Four year prior to this putsch on January 13, 1963, Sgt. Etienne Eyadema, had removed and assassinated President Sylvanus Olympio.
AllAfrica.com
August 29, 2017
... there was as brief period of excitement and hope under the leadership of founding father Sylvanus Olympio. But this proved to be short-lived.
The African Exponent
July 20, 2017
... in legislative elections opened the way to independence. Elected first president of the republic, Sylvanus Olympio was later killed in JanuaryÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
July 17, 2017
... head of state, Sylvanus Olympio in 1963, who made the fatal mistake of attempting to transition Togo's economy to its own national currency.
Ghana
May 3, 2017
The two leaders were met at the presidential palace by Togolese politician, Gilchrist Olympio, son of Sylvanus Olympio, Togo's first President. Gilchrist OlympioÃÂ ...
Xinhua
April 27, 2017
On Thursday, a special tribute was paid to Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the country, who was assassinated in a coup in 1963.
africanews
September 22, 2016
Gilchrist is the son of Sylvanus Olympio, father of Togo's independence who was assassinated in 1963 coup. The coup of 1963 and another inÃÂ ...
OsservatorioDiritti.it
December 31, 1999
In quel giorno, il primo presidente del Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, avrebbe compiuto 115 anni. Una data simbolica. Gli scontri, e i primi feriti, sonoÃÂ ...
African Arguments (registration)
December 31, 1999
... gained independence in 1960, there was as brief period of excitement and hope under the leadership of founding father Sylvanus Olympio.
GhanaWeb
March 14, 2017
Out of Nkrumah's inordinate zeal to annex Trans-Volta Togoland, Sylvanus Olympio of Togo described the former as an African imperialist.
Eastern Daily News
January 13, 2017
In 1963- This Day in History: President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, was killed by military in the coup de tat at Togo. The coup leaders took over the government and captured most of the cabinet.
gulfnews.com
January 12, 2017
1982 - An Air Florida Boeing 737 aircraft crashed into a crowded 14th Street bridge in downtown Washington and plunged into the icy waters of the Potomac River in a snowstorm, killing 78 people.
Umanità Nova
January 10, 2017
La lista comincia con Sylvanus Olympio, legittimo presidente della Repubblica del Togo, eletto democraticamente e assassinato il 13 gennaio 1963 dal sergente Etienne Eyadema, torturatore e assassino al servizio del colonialismo francese appena ...
The Eagle Online
December 20, 2016
From the first coup in Africa in 1963, that witnessed the assassination of President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo to the 2016 coup attempts in Burkina Faso and Libya, the rattling of swords by cabals, for cabals has continued to characterize the political ...
Center for Research on Globalization
September 25, 2016
Sylvanus Olympio, the first president of the Republic of Togo, instead of signing the colonisation continuation pact with De Gaulle, instead agreed to pay an annual debt to France for the so called benefits of French colonisation.
africanews
September 22, 2016
Gilchrist is the son of Sylvanus Olympio, father of Togo's independence who was assassinated in 1963 coup. The coup of 1963 and another in 1967 against his successor (Nicolas Garunitzky) resulted in then Colonel Eyadema seizing power in 1967.
Mehr News Agency
December 31, 1999
... Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. Independence for French Togoland, which later became the Togolese Republic, came in 1960 under Sylvanus Olympio. LR/3609216. Facebook Twitter Google+ ShareÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
March 1, 2016
The 1963 military ejections of Sylvanus Olympio in Togo and Hubert Maga in Benin were early signs that the army was not going to stay put.
Scotsman
January 12, 2016
1959: Belgium granted reforms in Belgian Congo after disturbances. 1962: An outbreak of smallpox spread throughout Britain. 1963: Togo's President Sylvanus Olympio was murdered as insurgents took control. 1964: A reluctant Capitol Records released theÃÂ ...
AllAfrica.com
December 6, 2015
Giants, such as Sekou Toure of Guinea, who once told the French that: "We prefer freedom in poverty to opulence in slavery", Sylvanus Olympio (Togo), Keita Modiba (Mali), David Dacko (Central African Republic) and many others who dared to resist theÃÂ ...
THISDAY Live
December 5, 2015
In 1963, following the assassination of President Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, Dr. Wachukwu told the world that the conception of Article 2, paragraph 7 of the United Nations Charter on the principle of non-intervention in the domestic affairs of other ...
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