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Togo's first census in 29 years fraught with difficulties

Togo is conducting its first census in 29 years, and some of the trained enumerators who have fanned out across the West African nation say complacency and suspicion among the people are making the task more difficult.

The census, which began Saturday, is expected to close on November 19. Togo's last census was in 1981, a lapse that violates United Nations Development Program directives for countries to hold a national count every 10 years.

In all, 7,000 trained census-takers have been going from house to house.

Togo's minister for planning, Dédé Ahoefa Ekoué, said the census will cost about 3.7 billion CFA francs ($7.4 million), with funds provided by the European Commission and the United Nations Development Program....

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