Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe has won the Saturday re-election to a third term based on provisional results with more than 1.2 million votes or 58.75 percent of the total.


His nearest rival was opposition leader Jean-Pierre Fabre with 34.95 percent of the vote, the provisional results showed.


"In light of these results, the election commission deems that Faure Gnassingbe won the election provided that they are confirmed by the constitutional court," commission head Issoufou Taffa Tabiouon said on state television.