Vol 50 No 9 | TOGO Brothers and enemies 1st May 2009 The Gnassingbé family that has run Togo for almost 42 years has split, opening up competition for the presidential election due next year The two most powerful sons of the late President Gnassingbé Eyadéma have fallen out. Kpatcha Gnassingbé was arrested on 12 April (AC Vol 50 No 8), charged with...
Vol 50 No 8 | TOGO His father's son 17th April 2009 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...
Vol 47 No 19 | TOGO Back in the fold 22nd September 2006 The choice of leading oppositionist Yaovi Agboyigbo as Prime Minister on 16 September and offers of aid and investment from Brussels and Paris point to a changing climate....
Vol 46 No 10 | TOGO Faure's French friends 13th May 2005 West African presidents and the Elysée Palace endorse Gnassingbé's election The army had crushed the opposition uprising and the Constitutional Court had rejected claims of electoral irregularities well before Faure Gnassingbé was sworn in on 4 May. Hospital...
Vol 46 No 9 | TOGO Merci, Papa 29th April 2005 People take to the streets in Lomé to protest against Faure Gnassingbé's victory in the polls 'If they declare Faure the winner, this place is going to go up in flames', predicted a much quoted opposition supporter in Lomé. And right on cue, the...
Vol 46 No 6 | TOGO Olympic heights 18th March 2005 It will be a struggle to introduce democracy after three decades of family rule The Gnassingbé clan will do all it can to win Togo's presidential election, scheduled for 24 April. Some think heir-apparent Faure Gnassingbé, son of the deceased dictator Gnassingbé...
Vol 46 No 5 | TOGO Faure falters 4th March 2005 Round one to the African Union; the next battle will be presidential elections Faure Gnassingbé's resignation as acting Head of State on 26 February is a provisional victory for both Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chairman of the African Union, and Mali's...
Vol 46 No 4 | TOGO Dynastic dictatorship 18th February 2005 Faure Gnassingbé, Togo's new leader, is not as wily as his late father Togo's succession was never going to be an easy matter. When he died on 5 February, President Gnassingbé Eyadéma had been in power for 38 years, resisting pressure...
Vol 46 No 4 | TOGO Not a good start 18th February 2005 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...
Vol 45 No 2 | TOGO Succession rumble 23rd January 2004 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...