Fast Times in Little Togo

This election is completely legitimate, I'm sure.

Faure Gnassingbe, candidate of Togo's ruling RPT party and son of the former leader, has provisionally won Sunday's presidential election, officials say.

Opposition supporters immediately poured onto the streets of the capital, Lome, erecting burning barricades. They say the poll was rigged.

Many residents stayed indoors as thick black smoke wafted across the city.

The army tried to install Mr Faure after his father died but pressure led him to step down and call an election.

Security forces used tear gas to disperse the opposition protesters in central Lome but shops were reportedly looted in other areas.

Keep an eye on this one. There have been a number of seedy elections in Africa lately, most notably in Togo and Zimbabwe. It seems that very little good news is coming out sub-Saharran Africa these days.