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Togo's taxi drivers protest against fuel price hike

Xinhua, March 1, 2017 Adjust font size:

Togolese taxi drivers set up barricades during a strike in the capital on Tuesday as a fuel price hike came into effect.

Violent protests were reported in different quarters of the capital as well as in the neighborhoods.

Security forces intervened to restore calm after protesters burned a bus belonging to urban mass transport company Sotral.

The demonstrations followed a fuel price increase, the second within 30 days, from Tuesday as announced in a joint ministerial release in Monday night.

The Togolese government cited "the fluctuations in the global prices in energy commodities," among others, to justify the increase.

As for now, the price per liter of the super unleaded gasoline has steadily increased from 433 CFC francs (0.698 U.S. dollars) to 476 CFA francs (0.768 dollars) on January 27 and to 524 francs (about 0.845 dollars) on February 28.

This represents a total increase of 91 CFA francs (0.146 dollars) within 30 days. Endit