Disorder at the top of the Togolese army, SOS for Sokodé and Bafilo / The two faces of a warlord: Barbouzes at the kit of ATCHADAM Tikpi
He is Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé, he was born June 6, 1966 of Eyadema Gnassingbe and Sena Sabine Mensah. At the death of his father on February 5, 2005, a coup, negotiated by generals, allows him to usurp the place of a certain Fambare Natchaba, then speaker of parliament. It did not take more to arouse strong pressure even if they will eventually submit to the will of the clan. Unlike the electoral and political forces, often stifled by the fire charisma of his father, legally the game of escort that accompanies the death of Eyadema was too big to be digested. The one who was invested president, replacing his late father, resigns on February 25 to return to win a presidential election, equally controversial, on April 24, 2005. Previously, on February 21, at 16 days of what the then prime minister called "national disaster", the National Assembly operates a political robbery by changing the constitution during the transitional period so that power remains in the fold. Fo...