Togo: Opposition choose Bob-Akitani as candidate for April election

Togo's opposition parties have picked septuagenarian politician Emmanuel Bob-Akitani as their joint candidate for next month's presidential election, hoping he will be able to beat the son of the late head of state, Gnassingbe Eyadema. "He is the sole candidate for Togo's democratic opposition to stand against the dying dictatorship," the main opposition party Union of Forces for Change (UFC) said on its website. "He represents the hope of a whole nation."