Gnassingbé Eyadéma

On that date in 1963 Gnassingbé Eyadéma shot Olympio dead and four years later took complete power for himself until his death in 2005 as Africa’s longest-serving head of state...

Ever since he succeeded his late father Gnassingbé Eyadéma in February 2005 opposition to dynastic successions and the awareness that he was the choice of the ‘ethno-military clique’ have worked against him...

President Gnassingbé Eyadéma had over fifty children and they form a court as complex and intrigue-bound as the Saudi Arabian royal family...

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...

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

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...