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Michel Ocelot, director of the famous animated film Kirikou and the Witch, released in 1998, was in Lome for the Festival International Gbaka Animation (FIGA). Ocelot’s ambition at this event, which put the spotlight on animated cinema and attracted an enthusiastic audience, was to encourage young Togolese creators to pursue …

Togo is now among the first African countries to have received the first batch of vaccines from the COVAX Facility, a UN-backed initiative to ensure poorer nations acquire the doses. The country received 156,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine on Sunday. The batch also contains 157,500 syringes, and 1,575 safety boxes. …