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Home - U.S. Embassy Lome, Togo About UsU.S. Citizen ServicesVisas to the U.S.U.S. Policy & IssuesResourcesFrançais Embassy Highlights US Navy Ship Visits the Port of Lomé A band of the US Navy performing at a high school in Lome. A vessel of the US Navy, the HSV-2 Swift, anchored at Lome (PAL) from January 28 to 31, 2008. Through Projet “Handclasp”, a program that coordinates the transport of donations of medical supplies, toys, food items, and other humanitarian goods from numerous American nonprofit organizations on U.S. Navy ships, the Swift brought to Togo 21 pallets of humanitarian items, including emergency food supplements, medical supplies, as well as toys and sewing machines for local NGOs. UNICEF and its local partners will distribute the food supplements to those in need, including victims of the flooding in northern Togo. (more) Latest Headlines From the Embassy Rice Urges Zimbabweans to Release Election Results The United States stands with the Zimbabwean people in carrying out the results of recent national elections, but it also calls on the government to release election results immediately. Elections were held March 29, but the results have yet to be released. Secretary Rice says the longer the results are held, the more suspicion grows. High Food Prices, Urban Migration Make It Hard to Help the Poor The dynamics of development and humanitarian assistance are changing, according to Henrietta Fore, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. She is joined by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer in speaking of new challenges posed by high food prices for donors and recipients. Food Crisis Has Long-Term Global Challenges, Rice Says President Bush is seeking an additional $350 million from Congress to provide immediate emergency food assistance, but the current food crisis has long-term global challenges, says Secretary Condoleezza Rice. "We need to encourage farmers and transporter...