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 LOME, Togo (AP) - With Togo's presidency being claimed both by an official election winner who has the support of his late father's military and a loser with thousands of young people willing to fight, many fear this tiny West African nation is on the brink of self-destruction.
African leaders and the European Union are scrambling to end the presidential-succession crisis that Togo's disputed April 24 election was supposed to solve. But many see little hope for a peaceful outcome.
"The infrastructure for civil war in Togo is already in place," said Emmanuel Anin, a political analyst for African Security Dialogue and Research, based in neighboring Ghana. "I fear the situation will only get worse before it gets better."
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