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Country earmarked for expulsion? (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

togo

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'country' is the definition.
(I know that Togo is African country)

'earmarked for expulsion?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'for' could be 'to' (eg both can mean 'in the opinion of') and 'to' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'go' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for togo that I've seen before include "Remaining united" , "territory of some West Africans" , "African country E. of Ghana" , "West Africa country, capital Lome" , "West African republic" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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