Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé

The official results gave President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé 61% Jean-Pierre Fabre of the Union des Forces de Changement (UFC) 34% and former transitional Prime Minister Yawovi Agboyibo’s Comité d’Action pour le Renouveau just 3% of the votes cast...

* Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé 44 won a second five-year term on a platform of economic development and reform with few details...

President Faure Gnassingbé is set for an easy victory against a divided opposition in the 4 March national elections: the main opposition parties plan to boycott the vote (AC Vol 50 No 9)...

We hear Ali Ben has been taking advice from Togo's President Faure Gnassingbé who beat the opposition to succeed his late father Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

Two weeks later he had received congratulations from only one foreign leader Togo's Faure Gnassingbé plus the governments of Angola Chad and Tunisia...

Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé's regime has just declared Dupuydauby and his Progosa company persona non grata...

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...

Hours later State Prosecutor Robert Bakaï accused Kpatcha a long-time rival of his half-brother President Faure Gnassingbé of organising a coup d’état...

Since Faure Gnassingbé seized power after the death of his father President Gnassingbé Eyadéma in 2005 relations between Faure and Kpatcha have been icy...

Low-key and mild-mannered President Faure Gnassingbé has the advantage of not being his late father the brutal dictator Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

However despite qualified approval by European election observers the victory of President Faure Gnassingbé’s ruling Rassemblement du Peuple Togolais (RPT) was rejected by the two main opposition parties...