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Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 We are offering the following item: + Worried Togo finds itself on front line of Sahel's jihadist war Togo-unrest-BFaso-Sahel,FOCUS DAPAONG, Togo In a makeshift bunker of sacks of rice beneath a tree, heavily-armed Togolese soldiers keep watch over villagers coming and going on foot or bike across the border. Although nothing dramatic appears to happen in Yemboate, in Togo's far north, less than 30 kilometres (19 miles) away, over the border in eastern Burkina Faso, jihadists and militia groups have imposed their own brutal law. 1,400 words by Celia Lebur. Pictures by Pius Ekpei. Video by Pierre Favennec afp
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