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Yesterday Bush declared that the United States of America wants to aid Cuba, but only after democracy has been restored.

Bush has stated that there will be no change in the current economic sanctions, but that the current U.S. administration wants to aid political dissidents by inviting them to embassy events all over the world and encouraging NGO's and civil society to reach out to Cuban emmigrants.

Moreover, Bush has promised to start an 'International Freedom Fund' for Cuba. All nations are invited to donate to the Fund, which will help develop Cuba. Bush declared that the funds will only become available to Cuba after democracy has been instated in the country. 

On Sunday the small West African Country Togo will hold parliamentary elections.

The election is supposed to mark the first free and fair election in
over forty years. Since 1993 all main donor countries have frozen aid
to the country because of bad governance, first under President
Gnassingbe Eyadema and later under his son Faure Gnassingbe, who came
to power in 2005.

International pressure forced Faure Gnassingbe to hold presidential
elections later that year. Although fraud was suspected Gnassingbe
officially won the elections with more than 60% of the vote.

According to Reuters Africa, the
Togolese people hope that Sunday's elections will mark a change to the
40 year rule of the Gnassingbe family and will put the country on a
path towards real democracy.