Kpatcha Gnassingbé

Faure's half- brother Kpatcha Gnassingbé once ran the Free Port and served as defence minister and interior minister under his father...

He gaoled his elder brother former Defence Minister Kpatcha Gnassingbé in 2011 for attempting to overthrow him but the feud continues to unsettle the regime (AC Vol 50 No 8 His father's son)...

There was an inevitability about the clash between President Faure Gnassingbé and his elder brother Kpatcha Gnassingbé ever since the time when they accompanied their dying father on the aeroplane to Tripoli Libya in February 2005 (AC Vol 50 No 9 Brothers and enemies)...

Faure’s family rallied to support him during the campaign with the exception of his brother Kpatcha Gnassingbé held in a gilded cage since April last year for his alleged role in a coup; he had been pushing for reform in the RPT...

Kpatcha Gnassingbé was arrested on 12 April (AC Vol 50 No 8) charged with plotting a coup d'état against his elder half-brother Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé President of Togo since 2005...

The arrest of former Defence Minister Kpatcha Gnassingbé while pleading in vain for asylum outside the gates of the United States' Embassy in Lomé on 15 April appears to have ended his political career ahead of presidential elections due in 2010...

His accusations followed a four-hour late-night shoot-out on 12 April between Kpatcha Gnassingbé’s bodyguards and the Forces Armées Togolaises’ elite Force d’Intervention Rapide which left five people dead and five others under arrest...

A conflict within the Gnassingbé family led Faure to sack his elder brother Kpatcha Gnassingbé as Defence Minister...

Defence Minister Kpatcha Gnassingbé seemed to threaten the more placid Faure and was fired in December...

His brother Kpatcha Gnassingbé is Defence Minister; his twin brother Toyi a Presidency advisor; younger brother Rock heads the scandal-ridden Togolese Football Federation; various trader sisters can be commercially and politically controversial...

The Chinese Embassy was attacked; China plays a big part in Togo's Free Trade Zone managed by one of Faure's siblings Kpatcha Gnassingbé...