Faure tried to distance himself from the 38-year reign of his father President Gnassingbé Eyadéma with campaign posters that did not mention the Gnassingbé family name...
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...
The endgame in Gabon recalls the end of the single-party regimes of Côte d'Ivoire's President Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma: Houphouët for the downward economic spiral chaos and scapegoating of foreigners Eyadéma for the son-in-waiting holding the keys to the armoury...
The two most powerful sons of the late President Gnassingbé Eyadéma have fallen out...
Since Faure Gnassingbé seized power after the death of his father President Gnassingbé Eyadéma in 2005 relations between Faure and Kpatcha have been icy...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Low-key and mild-mannered President Faure Gnassingbé has the advantage of not being his late father the brutal dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 |
- SENEGAL
Wade's monument stands as a rejection of those lofty goals: instead of commissioning one of Africa's many internationally renowned sculptors to design the monument Wade hired North Korea's Mansudae Overseas Project Group which specialises in building monuments of the neo-Stalinist school for such autocrats as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Gabon's late Omar Bongo Ondimba and Togo's late Gnassingbé Eyadéma...
Vol 49 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
He is an RPT member whose father served in the government of Togo’s founding father Sylvanus Olympio who was assassinated in 1963 by Faure’s father Gnassingbé Eyadéma President from 1967 till his death in 2005...
They remember that in Togo in 2005 on the death of President Gnassingbé Eyadéma his son Faure took over - without an election...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
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...