Togo: Human rights group says 790 killed in election violence

The Togolese League of Human Rights said on Friday that 790 people had been killed and 4,345 hurt in political violence triggered by the recent election of Faure Gnassingbe to succeed his father as president of the West African nation. “The international community must hold an inquiry given the scale of the human rights violations,” Ayayi Apedo-Amah, the secretary-general of the organisation, told IRIN.