Gnassingbé Eyadéma

AU and Ecowas censure Since Faure's installation by the army following the death of his father Gnassingbé Eyadéma on 5 February Obasanjo and Konaré have consistently condemned Faure Gnassingbé's take-over and have pushed the strong line that has emerged from both the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the AU which on 25 February imposed sanctions pending a return to constitutional rule...

When he died on 5 February President Gnassingbé Eyadéma had been in power for 38 years resisting pressure for change and exploiting his status as Africa's longest-serving leader to the full...

After years of affording President Gnassingbé Eyadéma the respect due to Africa's longest serving head of state the international community has come down hard on the machinations that allowed his son Faure Gnassingbé to take over...

When President Gnassingbé Eyadéma's son Faure Gnassingbé inherited Togo's presidency Gabonese watched closely...

At 69 he is Africa's longest-serving ruler after President Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo and a decade ago was wobbling under opposition pressure...

Talks have begun with the demoralised opposition but there is no early prospect of change to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma's 38-year dictatorship...

France's Jacques Chirac sent congratulations - as did Africa's doyen Togolese President Gnassingbé Eyadéma whom Ben Ali still lags many years behind...

But the Gabonese President-for-life is a more palatable mediator than Togo's President-for-life Gnassingbé Eyadéma Africa's senior leader who made the running in the early stages of the peace process...

Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma will wish success to Michel Scarbonchi (United European Left) who advocates resuming aid and defeat to his main critic German Christian Democrat Konrad Schwaiger...

General Gnassingbé Eyadéma has not appeared in public since the Liberation Day celebrations on 13 January date of President Sylvanus Olympio's murder and Eyadéma's seizure of power in 1967...