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Togo
Population: 6.9 mn.
GDP: 3.2 bn.
Debt: 1.3 bn.
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President Faure Gnassingbé grows in confidence after victory in 2010's peaceful presidential elections and co-option of opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio gaoling of his younger brother Kpatcha also helps.

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  • Vol 46 No 4
  •  18th February 2005

Dynastic dictatorship

Faure Gnassingbé, Togo's new leader, is not as wily as his late father

  • Vol 46 No 4
  •  18th February 2005

Not a good start

After years of affording President Gnassingbé Eyadéma the respect due to Africa's longest serving head of state, the international community has come down hard on the machinations that allowed his son Faure Gnassingbé to take over.

  • Vol 45 No 2
  •  23rd January 2004

Succession rumble

General Gnassingbé Eyadéma has not appeared in public since the Liberation Day celebrations on 13 January, date of President Sylvanus Olympio's murder and Eyadéma's seizure of power in 1967. The Great Helmsman visited Pope John Paul I...

  • Vol 44 No 21
  •  24th October 2003

Lomé abstention

Togo was a German colony, then a French one. The two former masters now disagree about Togo's dubious democracy and its 35-year President, Gnassingbé Eyadéma, 65. European aid was suspended after the presidential election in June 2003, held ...

  • Vol 44 No 11
  •  30th May 2003

Five-yearly farce

Togo's presidential election will be no better than the last two

  • Vol 44 No 9
  •  2nd May 2003

Democratic doubts

The 1 June presidential election could be as big a travesty of democracy as 1998, when the electoral commission was replaced on polling day so that phony results could be rubber-stamped, denying victory to opposition candidate Gilchrist Olympio.

  • Vol 43 No 14
  •  12th July 2002

Last of the dinosaurs

Splits in the ruling party could finally bring the changes the opposition seeks

  • Vol 42 No 18
  •  14th September 2001

The Chile factor

With 34 years in power and reason to fear retirement, President Gnassingbé Eyadéma shows signs of joining the club of presidents seeking to hang on in power. Premier Agbeyome Kodjo has postponed long awaited general elections, due on 14 and ...

  • Vol 40 No 18
  •  10th September 1999

Choppy waters

General Eyadéma makes plans to go – after another four years

  • Vol 40 No 7
  •  2nd April 1999

Lomé minus Lomé

President Gnassingbé Eyadéma's latest round of fraudulent elections, held on 21 March, could provoke Togo's suspension from the European Union's preferential trade treaty known as the Lomé IV agreement. The EU suspended aid after last June's equally fraud...

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