Togo 'shuts radio station' over reports

AUTHORITIES in Togo have shut down a radio station that aired reports of fraud as the country holds elections, the opposition says.

The polls in the west African nation had been delayed for months by waves of protests and the opposition had voiced concern about the prospect of cheating ahead of the vote.

The authorities accused Legende FM of broadcasting false allegations of ruling party fraud, said Louis-Rodolphe Attiogbe of the main opposition coalition Let's Save Togo.

"We were told it was (the authorities) that closed the station," Zeus Adjavon, Let's Save Togo's spokesman, told AFP.

A crowd protesting outside the station's building in the capital Lome was growing rowdy, but no teargas had been fired and there were no incidents of violence.

The polls mark the latest step in the impoverished country's transition to democracy after Gnassingbe Eyadema's rule from 1967 to his death in 2005, when the military installed his son Faure Gnassingbe as president.

Opposition leaders had threatened to boycott the vote after the government refused to implement sweeping electoral reforms, but ultimately decided to take part.

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