The Economic Community of West African States and the African Union should be commended on putting pressure on Togo's coup-installed Faure Gnassingbe to resign. A spokesman for Olusegun Obasanjo, chairman of the Africa Union and Nigeria's president, said:

What happened in Togo was a coup d'etat dressed in the borrowed robes of democracy and we are glad that Faure Gnassingbe has finally realised the folly of what happened.

South Africa's Mr Mbeki... admitted that some of Mr Mugabe's policies were "incorrect". But he repeated the ludicrous canard that Zimbabwe's present conflict is between blacks and whites. In fact, it is between a large black majority who want a fair election, and a small, predatory minority who wish to deny them one.

Togo has shown that the Africa can put its own house in order. Now it needs to do it more consistently.