Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé

President Faure Gnassingbé's authoritarian regime in Togo consistently cooperating with the juntas despite Ecowas policy signed a military cooperation agreement with Moscow in 2025 and is discussing Russian troop deployments as grassroots opposition grows...

These were the second and third stops on a regional tour that began with a meeting at the Lagos home of Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu and continued with visits to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and Côte d'Ivoire's Alassane Ouattara...

Togo's leader Faure Gnassingbé whose relations with Macron had grown testy two years ago has helped broker the first elements of a potential compromise with Niger over the stock of ‘yellowcake' concentrate from the Somaïr uranium mine operated by France's Orano until its nationalisation last year (AC Vol 67 No 3 Attack on Niamey airbase sounds alarms on uranium security)...

All three juntas regard Togo's Faure Gnassingbé – no longer head of state but still all-powerful in his new role as President of the Council – as their ally in Ecowas...

Would Ouattara then retain influence – in a Togolese-style arrangement à la Faure Gnassingbé or a dual leadership model like Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko (AC Vol 65 No 7 Faye's victory shakes up the region)...

One transitional year after its formal promulgation by President Faure Gnassingbé he is now set to assume the premiership concentrating all executive authority in that role...

Faure Gnassingbé looks set to relinquish the presidency that he has so tightly gripped since 2005 – but only to assume a beefed up premiership in which under new constitutional arrangements all executive powers will be concentrated (AC Vol 65 No 12 Plus ça change plus c'est la même chose)...

The Ecowas parliament had called for an extension of the timetable before ‘Sahel-exit' while Presidents Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and Faure Gnassingbé of Togo still hoped their mediation efforts could yield some results...

Another Francophone state Togo has maintained its status but its President Faure Gnassingbé has changed the constitution to stay in power indefinitely...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé who has positioned himself as a bridge between the Ecowas hawks and the Sahel putschists has been only too happy to promote Lomé as an alternative gateway for Niamey-bound freight...