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 Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema

Gnassingbe Eyadema

, 69, who died of a heart attack on Saturday [Feb. 5, 2005], came to power himself in a military coup and led his tiny, impoverished country - just over two-thirds the size of Scotland - for 38 years, making him the world’s longest-serving ruler after Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

He was one of the last of Africa’s so-called "Big Men". A general when he died, he was a sergeant when he came to power after the assassination of the country’s democratically elected president, Sylvanus Olympio.

Eyadema ruled with a rod of iron through the military, which he kept loyal through a system of patronage. His regime has been compared to that of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein in terms of its brutality, the repression of suspected dissidents and the terrorising of the country’s five million people, most of whom are illiterate or semi-literate peasants surviving through subsistence agriculture. Torture and extra-judicial killings were common under Eyadema, and an estimated one million Togolese have left the country since he came to power in 1967.

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Fri. March 12, 2010

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... regime of Gnassingbe, who was first put in power in 2005 by the military upon the death of his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who had ruled for 38 years. ...
These presidents have kept up a long tradition: Togo's late president, Gnassingbe Eyadema, who was also Africa's longest-serving Big Man, was survived by ...
General Gnassingbe Eyadema, who had seized power after murdering the democratically-elected Sylvanus Olympio in 1963, was still running the place; ...
Gnassingbe has been the President of Togo since 2005, following the death of his father, Gnassingbe Eyadema, and his family has lead Togo for more than 40 ...

Gnassingbe, who took over after 38 years of dictatorship under his father Gnassingbe Eyadema, won 1.24 million of 2.1 million cast votes in Thursday's ...
He took over from his late father Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled as a dictator for 38 years. International observers this time judged the election to have ...
Gnassingbe Eyadema, his father, on Feb. 5, 2005 after in power for 38 years. Faure was born on June 6, 1966 in the southern city of Afagnan. ...
Ruled by General Gnassingbe Eyadema for 38 years, it's been led by the strongman's son, Faure Gnassingbe since 2005. He is seeking a second term today, ...
... are expected to choose a new leader among seven candidates including incumbent Faure Gnassingbe, son of the late veteran dictator Gnassingbe Eyadema. ...
Hundreds of people died in violence after the last presidential election in 2005, held following the death of Gnassingbe Eyadema, Faure's father, ...
... Rights Committee (CNDH) in the difficult times of the 1990s when the late Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema ruled the country with an iron fist. ...
... past have been followed by bloody violence, including in 2005, after the death of former dictator General Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled for 38 years. ...
... who came to power after a hotly contested election in April 2005, following the death of his father and predecessor Gnassingbe Eyadema on Feb. 5, 2005. ...
That 2005 election lead to the election of Faure Gnassingbe, son of the deceased President Gnassingbe Eyadema. It was highly contested, so the AU observers ...
Togo's incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe, the son of long-time leader Gnassingbe Eyadema, initially became president in a military coup after his father ...
President Faure Gnassingbe, the son of Gnassingbe Eyadema who ruled the west African nation for 38 years until his death in 2005, is seeking re-election and ...
... President Faure Gnassingbe, who came to power after a hotly-contested election in April 2005 following the death of his father, general Gnassingbe Eyadema.
He is the son of Gnassingbe Eyadema, who died in February 2005 after 38 years in power. On the opposition side, Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson for ...
The lead contender is incumbent Faure Gnassingbe, who seized control in 2005 after the death of his father, military leader Gnassingbe Eyadema, ...
... the first woman to run for the presidency in the West African country. Gnassingbe is the son of Gen. Gnassingbe Eyadema, who died on Feb. ...
Soon after the death of Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, worshippers of the gerontocratic cult quickly predicted what the leader would have done if he knew he ...
However the pacifist means of challenging the government were upstaged by Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo and Milton Obote of Uganda, among others, who schooled ...
Soon after the death of Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, worshippers of the gerontocratic cult quickly predicted what the leader would have done if he knew he ...
Five years ago: Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema (nyah-SING'-bay ee-yah-DEE'-mah) died after a fatal heart attack; he was 69. Steve Young and Dan Marino ...
Five years ago: Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema died after a fatal heart attack; he was 69. Steve Young and Dan Marino were elected to the Pro football ...
Five years ago: Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema (nyah-SING'-bay ee-yah-DEE'-mah) died after a fatal heart attack; he was 69. Steve Young and Dan Marino ...
... son of Africa's longest ruling leader, Gnassingbe Eyadema, to take over as the country's new leader just hours after his father died of a heart attack. ...
Five years ago: Togo President Gnassingbe Eyadema (nyah-SING'-bay ee-yah-DEE'-mah) died after a fatal heart attack; he was 69. Steve Young and Dan Marino ...
Gnassingbe Eyadema was the president in Togo when Awlime left; now his son is president. Awlime has been told that nothing has really changed. ...
The President is the son of late Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ruled Togo for 38 years until his death in February 2005. Faure was catapulted to power by the ...
The plane touched down at the Gnassingbe Eyadema International Airport at exactly 11.15 pm last Sunday night. The players were welcomed by a small but ...
13, which was celebrated as the "national liberation day" by the regime of Gnassingbe Eyadema between April 1967 and Feb. 5, 2005. On Jan. ...
Have we forgotten how the likes of Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo), Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo, ...
He also refused to speak on the outcome of the meeting with Togolese President, Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema. The former President alighted from the Fokker ...
While ruling party supporters used the occasion to commemorate the rise to power of the late President Gnassingbe Eyadema and to show their might of power ...
The former French colony has been emerging from international isolation since the 2005 death of strongman Gnassingbe Eyadema, who seized power in 1967 and ...
France was doing the same to Gnassingbe Eyadema against the Olympios in Togo, the same to Omar Bongo against Pierre Mbamboundou in Gabon, and the Belgium to ...
... Lansana Conte, Gnassingbe Eyadema, Arap Moi, Omar Bongo, Obiang Nguema, Blaise Campore, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Eduardo dos Santos, Baby Doc Duvalier, ...
So, you get on with it'); Togo has barely survived the late Gnassingbe Eyadema's tenacious hold on power; and Ivory Coast is yet to recover from the ruins ...
He took over power in 2005 after the death of his father Gnassingbe Eyadema, who had been the head of state since 1967. According to observers, the attitude ...


 


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