Lomé, August 25, 2025 – Togo is going through an unprecedented political crisis. Since the controversial establishment of the Fifth Republic In May 2025, popular protest continued to grow. The streets ignite, the diaspora is mobilizing, the voices rise and the youth takes the front of the stage.
Faced with this growing mobilization, the Faure Gnassingbéin power since 2005, responds with repression: arbitrary arrests, intimidation and a strategy of state terror.
After the arrest of affectio and the internment of Aamron, the last episode to date: the kidnapping and illegal detention of Oseï Agbagno and Armand Aglézé, two young figures of the movement Let’s turn the Togo pagearrested on August 22 without a mandate or legal justification, then transferred to the SCRIC, sadly renowned for its extrajudicial practices.
A youth who refuses silence
Oseï, is a man in the field. He federates young people in his neighborhood around citizen initiatives and actively participates in urban sanitation.
Armand, a tireless activist, embodies the resistance of a Togolese youth who refuses to fold in the face of authoritarianism.
Citizen commitment under high tension
Their arrest illustrates a disturbing drift: the Criminalization of civic engagement. In a country where contesting power is a heroic act, each dissident voice becomes a target.
Since 2025, Togo has officially tilted in an autocratic monarchy, thanks to a constitutional reform imposed without popular consultation. For a large part of the population, this *Fifth Republic is an institutional coupconsolidating a diet in place for over sixty years.
A youth mobilized, in the field and online
In Togo as in the diaspora, youth are organized, expresses and acts. On the ground, it carries out citizen actions, animates collectives, sensitizes populations.
On social networks, she denounces, relays, documents abuses, and creates digital resistance spaces. Hashtags, videos, lives, committed threads: speech is released, mobilization is intensifying.
This youth is campaigning for:
• the return to the 1992 Constitution
• The respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms
• The fight against corruption and impunity
• Citizen mobilization for a worthy life
Inspired by Affectio, Aamron, Zaga Bambo from the M66 and many others, this committed youth embodies a new generation of activists: spontaneous, connected, rooted in local realities. She draws the contours of a militant renewal Au Togo.
Mobilization time
Faced with repression, citizen organizations call for:
• The immediate release of all political prisoners
• The compliance with fundamental rights
• The end of intimidation against peaceful activists
• The end of the dictatorial regime of gnassingbé
Togo is a turning point. Youth is organized, civil society rises, and history is written in the streets, in hearts, on social networks, in the voices of those who refuse to be silent.
By Karl Adadé Gaba
