Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé is a Togolese politician who has been the president of Togo since 2005. Before assuming the presidency, he was appointed by his father, President Gnassingbé Eyadéma, as Minister of Equipment, Mines, Posts, and Telecommunications, serving from 2003 to 2005.
Gnassingbé in 2021
Faure Gnassingbé in 2006
Helen Clark meeting with Togolese president in 2009
Barack and Michelle Obama greet Faure Gnassingbé in August 2014.
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It is one of the least developed countries and extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, where its capital, Lomé, is located. It is a small, tropical country, which covers 57,000 square kilometres and has a population of approximately 8 million, and it has a width of less than 115 km (71 mi) between Ghana and its eastern neighbour Benin.
Togoland (R. Hellgrewe, 1908)
The 2017–18 Togolese protests against the 50-year rule of the Gnassingbé family
First president of Togo from 1960 to 1963
Gnassingbé Eyadéma ruled from 1967 until his death in 2005.