Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé

There was an inevitability about the clash between President Faure Gnassingbé and his elder brother Kpatcha Gnassingbé ever since the time when they accompanied their dying father on the aeroplane to Tripoli Libya in February 2005 (AC Vol 50 No 9 Brothers and enemies)...

Two – Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré and Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé – had shot their way to power while Jonathan is the beneficiary of a fraudulent election and the demise of his predecessor...

On 13 June Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé visited Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...

The official results gave President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé 61% Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Union des Forces de Changement (UFC) 34% and former transitional Prime Minister Yawovi Agboyibo’s Comité d’Action pour le Renouveau just 3% of the votes cast...

* Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé 44 won a second five-year term on a platform of economic development and reform with few details...

President Faure Gnassingbé is set for an easy victory against a divided opposition in the 4 March national elections: the main opposition parties plan to boycott the vote (AC Vol 50 No 9)...

We hear Ali Ben has been taking advice from Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé who beat the opposition to succeed his late father Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

Two weeks later he had received congratulations from only one foreign leader Togo's Faure Gnassingbé plus the governments of Angola Chad and Tunisia...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé's regime has just declared Dupuydauby and his Progosa company persona non grata...

Kpatcha Gnassingbé was arrested on 12 April (AC Vol 50 No 8) charged with plotting a coup d'état against his elder half-brother Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé President of Togo since 2005...