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After Rwanda, now Togo looks to join the Commonwealth

Togo Foreign Minister Robert Dussey. Photo" AFP

Diplomatic talks and visits by experts are gathering pace in Togo as the former French colony looks to follow another Francophone nation to join the Commonwealth.

Rwanda joined the 52-member bloc in 2009, 14 years after Portuguese-speaking Mozambique became the first member never to have had a past link to Britain.

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