Gnassingbé Eyadéma

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...

Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma after nearly 40 years in power is seriously ill...

The two former masters now disagree about Togo's dubious democracy and its 35-year President Gnassingbé Eyadéma 65...

President Gnassingbé Eyadéma will secure a third presidential term on 1 June but this time hardly anyone is taking the process seriously...

Greeted by large crowds on his return to Lomé from Ghana on 26 April for President Gnassingbé Eyadéma (after 36 years of dictatorial power one of Africa's ultimate dinosaurs) Olympio is still the man to beat...

A demonstration against La Françafrique on 20 February gathered a couple of thousand people cheerfully protesting against anything from France's treatment of Gbagbo to the impunity enjoyed by long-standing friends of the Elysée Palace such as Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso...

Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma has been hosting Ivorian peace talks though a vote by parliament on 30 December altering the constitution to let him stand for another term this year does nothing for his democratic credentials...

Several members of Ecowas are directly implicated in the conflict and its mediation had risked being swallowed up by infighting among member states notably the region's two top negotiators Senegal the current Ecowas President which brought Madagascar's rival presidents together earlier this year (AC Vol 43 No 9) and Togo whose President Gnassingbé Eyadéma the regional doyen is hosting the faltering peace talks...

Apart from Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo those causing most concern include Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma (who has promised to stand down next year but does everything to prepare for another term) and Guinea's President Lansana Conté Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou Nguesso Central African Republic's Ange-Félix Patassé and Burkina Faso's Blaise Compaoré...

Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma is beyond the pale...