Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé

Opponents of President Faure Gnassingbé will stage protests in Montreal Paris and Luxembourg on 7 October to add an international dimension to their campaign against the government's proposals to exempt Gnassingbé from proposed new term limits...

A vague statement by Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon on 11 September said President Faure Gnassingbé wanted the event postponed because 'the success of this important event requires significant and complicated preparations...

This led to a fistfight with the bodyguards of Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé leaving torn uniforms and bloody noses prompting him to cancel his meeting with Netanyahu...

Beyond Burkina Faso's borders the drama is being watched intently in countries whose Presidents are planning to extend their rule namely: Congo-Kinshasa's Joseph Kabila Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso Togo's Faure Gnassingbé Benin's Yayi Boni Djibouti's Omar Guelleh Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Burundi's Pierre Nkurunziza and Rwanda's Paul Kagame...

The opposition Collectif sauvons le Togo (CST) is challenging the victory of President Faure Gnassingbé's ruling Union pour la République in the 25 July elections...

The party of Sylvanus’s son Gilchrist Olympio joined the Government of National Reform set up by Gnassingbé’s son President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé in 2010...

President Faure Gnassingbé’s prospects of staying in office in the long-term are diminishing...

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)...

Two – Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré and Togo’s Faure Gnassingbé – had shot their way to power while Jonathan is the beneficiary of a fraudulent election and the demise of his predecessor...

On 13 June Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé visited Nathan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong...