Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé

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...

Hours later State Prosecutor Robert Bakaï accused Kpatcha a long-time rival of his half-brother President Faure Gnassingbé of organising a coup d’état...

Since Faure Gnassingbé seized power after the death of his father President Gnassingbé Eyadéma in 2005 relations between Faure and Kpatcha have been icy...

Low-key and mild-mannered President Faure Gnassingbé has the advantage of not being his late father the brutal dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

However despite qualified approval by European election observers the victory of President Faure Gnassingbé’s ruling Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais (RPT) was rejected by the two main opposition parties...

Gilchrist Olympio's Union des Forces de Changement has condemned President Faure Gnassingbé's decision to use 3 000 electoral kits from Congo-Kinshasa without consulting the Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante...

There is concern as to whether Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé is gradually being forgiven for the way he inherited power from his late father Gnassingbé Eyadéma...