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Ghali designates mediator for Togo

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    The Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la
    Francophonie, Boutros Boutros Ghali, has designated Ide Oumarou to mediate in talks between Togolese political groups, PANA news agency reported.

    Ghali said in a statement that Oumarou would take over from Moustapha Niasse, who has been appointed prime minister in the government of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade.

    The talks are aimed at reaching a compromise in the country's political crisis that erupted over the June 1998 presidential elections in which President Gnassingbe Eyadema was declared winner. Opposition leaders contested the results.

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