Gnassingbé Eyadéma

He is an RPT member whose father served in the government of Togo’s founding father Sylvanus Olympio who was assassinated in 1963 by Faure’s father Gnassingbé Eyadéma President from 1967 till his death in 2005...

They remember that in Togo in 2005 on the death of President Gnassingbé Eyadéma his son Faure took over - without an election...

There is concern as to whether Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbé is gradually being forgiven for the way he inherited power from his late father Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

The European Union had suspended aid to Faure's father Gnassingbé Eyadéma in 1993...

Under the President's late father President Gnassingbé Eyadéma the EU formulated 22 conditions relating to democracy and human rights which must be implemented before its aid suspended in 1992 is resumed; only a few of these have been met (AC Vol 46 No 10)...

After the death of Togo's President Gnassingbé Eyadéma Compaoré made overtures to his son Faure Gnassingbé who presented two helicopters for the presidential campaign...

Six months ago it was the demise of Togo's dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma and the attempted usurpation of power by his son Faure Gnassingbé that pushed regional leaders into action to press for a return to constitutional rule...

Barnier a former European Union Commissioner argued that Paris should stop backing corrupt autocrats such as Togo's late Gnassingbé Eyadéma but the government recognised his son Faure Gnassingbé's stolen election in April...

And right on cue the barricades went up on 26 April as soon as the government announced that Faure son of the late dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma had won the presidential election two days earlier (AC Vol 46 No 6)...

Faure and family maintain the traditional ties with Paris started when Gnassingbé Eyadéma was a sergeant in the French army...

A strange silence from Accra greeted the sudden death on 5 February of Togo's (and Africa's) longest-serving leader Etienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma...