The authorities decided on Thursday to temporarily close the University of Lomé because of the consequent unrest on campus in recent days. Some students are protesting against the LMD (Licence-Master-Doctorate).
LMD, License-Masters-Doctorate (LMD), a system that theoretically can increase mobility between disciplines and vocational and general training.
Besides Togo, LMD is already fuctioning at several universities in Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger and Senegal.