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LOME, Togo (AP) - For years, Foli Nyassia watched as his neighbors were beaten, arrested and snatched away in the night by soldiers under Togo's late dictator.
Now the new president — son of the late dictator — professes to have embraced democracy and vows to unite his divided country. But Nyassia says little has changed in his opposition-dominated neighborhood of Be, on the eastern edge of Lome.
There, the disputed election of Faure Gnassingbe, who took the oath of office Wednesday, set off days of clashes, more deadly nighttime visits by soldiers, and the flight of thousands of terrified residents across the borders to neighboring Ghana and Benin.
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