In the West African nation of Togo, the term "playing games" has taken on new meaning -- starting today, women protesting President Faure Gnassingbe are withholding sex from their husbands for a week, in order to help persuade them that Gnassingbe has to go.

According to Isabelle Ameganvi, leader of the women's wing of civil rights group Let's Save Togo, a sex strike may be just the beginning:

We have many means to oblige men to understand what women want in Togo.

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