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Gnassingbé Eyadéma

Date of Birth: 26 December 1935
Place of Birth: Kozah, Kara Region, Togo
Died: 5 February 2005


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Masters of war

Although leaders such as Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma were named and shamed for breaking UN sanctions against UNITA they faced no disciplinary action...


Unity Gadaffi-style

The host was Togo's controversial President Gnassingbé Eyadéma backed by Libya's even more controversial Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi (who contributed 70 billion CFA francs (US$103 million) of the FF CFA100 bn...


The military-metropolitan team

Jeannou Lacaze Chief of Staff of the French army in the 1980s; he was security advisor to the Zaïrean President Mobutu Sese Seko then to military leaders Gnassingbé Eyadéma in Togo and Idriss Déby in Chad...


The battle for Freetown

Burkina Faso's President already faces international efforts to rein him in for trading diamonds and weapons with Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola as does Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma who presided over the signing of the Sierra Leone peace accord last July (see US Lobbying feature)...


Influence for sale

Another major consumer of lobbyists is Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma who has a similar image problem to Bongo and has worked through six lobbying firms...


Name and shame

The United Nations' latest exercise in naming and shaming sanctions-busters may see the international isolation of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré and Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma for their roles in supplying arms to Jonas Savimbi's Angolan rebels and buying diamonds from them...


Killer floods

Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...


Quarrelsome lobby

Robinson was a deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker during Ronald Reagan's reign then joined a lobby firm whose clients included the Nigerian government of General Sani Abacha Gnassingbé Eyadéma's regime in Togo and Paul Biya's in Cameroon...


Not yet endgame

Gnassingbé Eyadéma's government even more hostile to the MPLA...


Tandja wins, ok

Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma once close to military leader Seyni Kountché was seen as behind Tandja from the start...


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