Togolese women protest by dropping their trousers

Several women in Togo's capital Lome on Tuesday (August 28) took to the streets with their knickers and trousers down protesting under the name, "Sauvons Le Togo" ("Let's Save Togo").


The day before, the collective had called on its female members to join a week-long "sex strike", designed to motivate more men to join them in their fight against President Faure Gnassingbé.

For the moment there is no way of knowing if this appeal to "close their legs", as local journalists describe it, has been adhered to.