Women from the Let's Save Togo coalition called Sunday on all females in the country to refrain from sex for a week to force Togolese men into backing the group during their demonstrations.

Let's Save Togo is an umbrella organization of nine civil society groups and seven opposition parties and movements that has rallied to demand political reforms ahead of parliamentary elections due in October.

Several thousand people demonstrated in the capital of the West African nation of Togo on Saturday in the latest protest ahead of parliamentary elections expected in October.

A number of previous demonstrations were dispersed with tear gas, but no incidents were reported on Saturday during the protest organized by a coalition of civil society and opposition groups called Let's Save Togo.