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...
Vol 41 No 13 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
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...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- SIERRA LEONE
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)...
Vol 41 No 10 |
- UNITED STATES
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gnassingbé Eyadéma's government even more hostile to the MPLA...
Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma once close to military leader Seyni Kountché was seen as behind Tandja from the start...
Like fellow dinosaurs such as Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma and Zaïre's late Mobutu Sese Seko Bongo (in power since 1968) was shocked by his marginalisation by Paris and Washington...
