Tag Archives: Western Togoland

Togo’s first president, Sylvanus Olympio, was a vocal critic of Ghana’s first president, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, especially over his attempt to take over the Western Togoland, now Volta Region. According to him, Ghana did not only want to merge Western Togoland to it, but it also wanted to integrate …

The Western Togoland Governing Council and the Defense Council have announced the formation of a special task force to carry out three key assignments. The Council in a statement explained that the task force, which was launched on January 18, 2024, will implement a campaign against voting in all territories …

An Accra High Court has given various sentences to six members of the Western Togoland Restoration Front (WTRF), a secessionist organisation in Ghana. WTRF is part of a splinter organisation from the Homeland Study Group Foundation, whose objective is to secede from Ghana. Kwame Tornyeveadzi was sentenced to six years imprisonment on …

The five persons convicted in connection with the activities of the Western Togoland foundation group have been handed the maximum sentence of five years each in prison with hard labour. The five separatists were convicted last week after more than a year of trial for offences of attending meetings of …

  The leader and founder of separatist group, Homeland Study Group Foundation (HSGF), Charles Kormi Kudjordzi popularly called Papavi Hogbedetor, has passed on, family sources say. The 87-year old died at the St. Paul’s Hospital in the Akatsi South Municipality after a brief illness, multiple media sources report. Kudzordzi, a retired teacher …