Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Togo: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
Togo’s Decree No. 2024-071/PR of 26 December 2024 obliges operators to keep subscribers’ personal information and SIM and number allocation data for at least five years after deregistration. Under the 2018 cybersecurity law, judicial police acting under the prosecutor may oblige a service provider to collect or record the content of specific communications in real time.
Decree No. 2024-071/PR of 26 December 2024 on the systematic and mandatory identification of subscribers applies to all operators established in Togo and to their subscribers (article 2). Operators must keep subscribers’ personal information and the allocation data for SIM cards and numbers for at least five years from deregistration (article 14). Whether a VPN operator is an operator within the decree is not established.
Under Law No. 2018-026 on cybersecurity and the fight against cybercrime, a judicial police officer under the prosecutor’s control may collect or record the content of specific communications in real time, or oblige a service provider to do so or to assist; the provider is bound to secrecy (article 44). Operators and providers bear the cost of interception equipment (article 45).
Judicial police, under the prosecutor’s control, may have data linked to an offence that are contrary to public order or morals, or that endanger systems, made inaccessible by a qualified person using technical means (article 43). The law creates offences for racist or xenophobic writings and images distributed through a computer system (article 15) and for negationism (article 18).
Insult through a computer system on grounds of race, colour, descent, national or ethnic origin or religion is punished by six months to two years’ imprisonment and a fine of CFA francs 500,000 to 2,000,000 (article 17). Threats through a computer system against a person for belonging to a racial, ethnic, national or religious group carry six months to two years, or one to three with an order or condition (article 16).
Communicating false information meant to suggest that damage, harm to persons or another emergency has occurred or is about to occur carries one to three years and a fine of one to three million francs (article 25).
Accounts are tied to people through registration: an operator may activate a SIM card only after recording the subscriber’s identity details (decree, article 15).
In June 2020 the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice held that the internet shutdowns Togo imposed in September 2017 had no basis in law and violated freedom of expression. It ordered Togo not to repeat them and awarded compensation.
Security interceptions under the 2018 law are authorised under conditions and for purposes to be fixed by decree (article 45), not by a court order provided for in the statute itself. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Togo
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
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Devices10at once
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Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
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