President Faure Gnassingbé is holding it up as a legitimisation of his rule and plan to extend his tenure in office yet again (AC Vol 61 No 5 Democratic for a dynast)...

La methode Faure – rule by smoke and mirrors The constitutionalist smokescreen which allows Faure Gnassingbé to hold executive power indefinitely is the latest in a line of sophisticated manoeuvres crafted to present him as a democracy-loving leader...

This article was adapted from part of Africa Confidential's special report on the domination of the Togolese economy by French billionaire Vincent Bolloré through his relations with the ruling network of President Faure Gnassingbé May 2022...

President Faure Gnassingbé is seeking to strengthen his government's ties to the United States and secure US investment under two recent laws...

A 15-18 month timeframe is reportedly under discussion with the Togolese president Faure Gnassingbé playing the key mediator role assisted by his Beninois and Sierra Leonean counterparts...

Faure Gnassingbé has run Togo since taking over from his father Gnassingbé Eyadéma in 2005...

President Faure Gnassingbé's government is assisting the Niger junta to consolidate power Africa Confidential has learned although as a member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Togo is publicly hewing to the bloc's anti-coup line...

Following months of diplomacy including mediation by Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé and the visit to Bamako of Ivorian defence minister Téné Birahima Ouattara – brother of president Alassane – their release was a signal of restored goodwill...

They are accused of helping Presidents Faure Gnassingbé of Togo and Alpha Condé of Guinea in their election campaigns in 2010 in return for special favours in their country's major ports...

We show how Bolloré's carefully nurtured ties with Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé point to his plans to dominate the country's media and digital communications business – and the implications of that for other countries in the region...

Gafan is to married one of President Faure Gnassingbé's sisters according to local media...

By November 2004 Faure Gnassingbé one of President Eyadéma's sons then Minister of Equipment Mining Posts and Telegraphs signed an agreement for the construction and operation of a new container terminal with Terminaux Conventionnels de Lomé a newly registered company owned by Dupuydauby and Bolloré...

His entourage of senior military and police officers belonging to his ethnic group the Kabye decided their best chance of preserving the status quo was to pick Faure Gnassingbé the ablest of all their former leader's several children by different women as the successor (see box: Son of the putschist)...

) Dupuydauby also claims President Faure Gnassingbé told him that much as he regretted it Faure had to transfer control of Lomé port to Bolloré because President Sarkozy had told him in 2007 it would be a friendly gesture...

President Faure Gnassingbé's elite network of influence converges with Bolloré's and provided the natural starting point for the Frenchman's control of media in Togo once his Havas advertising and political agency had helped Faure's re-election in 2010...

Son of the putschist mounted a legal coup When his military dictator father died in 2005 Faure Gnassingbé was favoured by his father's Praetorian guard of military and police loyalists who also protected the regime against political reform...

On 14 February Sassou hosted a mini-summit with Tshisekedi Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni and Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé...

She has worked as an adviser to Togo's Faure Gnassingbé and is a friend of Senegal's President Macky Sall...